The impact of industrialization on secondary schooling during the industrial revolution: evidence from nineteenth-century France

Raphaël Franck*

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Abstract

This study explores the impact of industrialization on secondary schooling in nineteenth-century France. As a source of exogenous variation in industrialization across the French territory, it takes advantage of the openings and closures of mines, which were supervised by the Ministry of Public Works, independently from the Ministry of Education. The results suggest that industrialization had a negative but mostly insignificant effect on high school enrollment. However, industrialization increased the share of high school pupils in applied sections and the wages of mathematics teachers.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)2007-2023
Number of pages17
JournalJournal of Population Economics
Volume36
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2023

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© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

Keywords

  • Horse power
  • Industrial revolution
  • Secondary schooling

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