IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/cpr/ceprdp/16976.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Whither education? The long shadow of pre-unification school systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861-1911)

Author

Listed:
  • Cappelli, Gabriele
  • BOZZANO, MONICA
  • Vasta, Michelangelo

Abstract

This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of the expansion of mass schooling and the long-term legacy of educational institutions. Based on a new provincial-level dataset for Italy in the period 1861-1911, we argue that different models of schooling provision adopted by the different pre-unification polities influenced primary-education organization across macro-regions up to WWI. As a result, school access and the capability to generate literacy given current rates of enrolment differed substantially, with the Northern regions aiming to increase schooling for all, while the Centre and the South implemented a more elitist model.

Suggested Citation

  • Cappelli, Gabriele & BOZZANO, MONICA & Vasta, Michelangelo, 2022. "Whither education? The long shadow of pre-unification school systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861-1911)," CEPR Discussion Papers 16976, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:16976
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://cepr.org/publications/DP16976
    Download Restriction: CEPR Discussion Papers are free to download for our researchers, subscribers and members. If you fall into one of these categories but have trouble downloading our papers, please contact us at subscribers@cepr.org
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Mass schooling; Education; Literacy; Economic history; Italy; Legacy; Institutions;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E02 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Institutions and the Macroeconomy
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:16976. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cepr.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.