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The rise of public schooling in nineteenth‑century Imperial Austria: Who gained and who paid?

Cvrcek, TT; Zajicek, M; (2019) The rise of public schooling in nineteenth‑century Imperial Austria: Who gained and who paid? Cliometrica 10.1007/s11698-018-0180-6. Green open access

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Abstract

The rise of education features prominently in the debate on the sources of modern economic growth. Existing accounts stress the importance of popular demand for its public provision. We argue that such an explanation for the spread of schooling is a poor fit for many nations’ schooling histories, such as Imperial Austria. We show that in the Austrian case, schooling and economic development had limited impact on each other; that the popular demand for schooling was weak and that the push for school expansion came mainly from the top of the political hierarchy.

Type: Article
Title: The rise of public schooling in nineteenth‑century Imperial Austria: Who gained and who paid?
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s11698-018-0180-6
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-018-0180-6
Language: English
Additional information: © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Keywords: Public schooling, Education, Economic development, Austria
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > SSEES
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10060034
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