Revealing Failures in the History of School Finance

Lindert, Peter H.

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“…Still, the fiscal rates of return in 12 Freeman and Oostendorp (2000), using International Labour Organisation (ILO) wage data. For evidence of the same higher pay premiums for the more educated in earlier centuries for Eurasia, see the sources cited on this point in Lindert (2009). On Latin America, see also Frankema (2009, Ch.…”

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The unequal lag in Latin American schooling since 1900: follow the money

Lindert¹

2010

RHE / JILAEH

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Focusing on education-income anomalies, in which a richer country delivers less education than a poorer country, seems a promising way to harvest a part of the rich history that does not lend itself to econometrics. To test the chain of alleged causation from unequal power and wealth to poor schooling, one must follow the public money, or lack of it, in as many contexts as the data will allow. Public funding for mass schooling is the hitherto untested middle link in the chain. The key to Latin America's poor schooling was the failure to supply tax money, not gender discrimination or any shortfall in market demand for skills. The most glaring anomalies were the Venezuelan and Argentine failures to supply the levels of tax support for mass schooling that their high income could have afforded.Keywords: inequality, education, public sector, Latin America, Venezuela, Argentina JEL Code: N36, I22 RESUMENEste artículo estudia algunas irregularidades de la relació n entre educació n y renta, por la que los países ricos ofrecen menos educació n que los pobres.

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“…Each has its strengths and weaknesses. These are discussed more fully in Lindert (2009, footnote 35). The third or relative public inputs per child, is captured by the «support ratio» of (subsidies/child) to (GDP per capita or per adult of working age).…”

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The unequal lag in Latin American schooling since 1900: follow the money

Lindert¹

2010

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“…1233Andreoni ( --1258. 23 This section's treatment of the history of public primary education draws on Go and Lindert (2010) and Lindert (2010). 24 Dincecco (2011), Dincecco and Katz (forthcoming).…”

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Privatewelfare and the welfare state

Lindert¹

2014

The Cambridge History of Capitalism

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This essay takes some easy first steps toward a global history of private and public social insurance and social assistance, combining economists' theories with recent advances in the economic history of both kinds of social spending in the Atlantic Community. Private insurance and charity have advanced slowly to modest levels, helped by the rule of law and income growth. Private giving has not been crowded out by the rise of public aid, because it has always fit the "warm glow" model better than the altruism model of caring about the aggregate conquest of need. The rise of public social insurance and assistance was held back for millennia until the arrival of state fiscal capacity plus the spread of mass political voice. Together these opened the door to lower-cost, more efficient, less bureaucratic public provision. The rise of universal tax-based education, health, and safety nets has brought great gains in GDP. Yet from the 1960s on, the further expansion of social spending has wandered away from its pro-growth egalitarian social targets toward overemphasis on aid to the elderly. This has not affected GDP much so far, but something has to give in the rapidly aging societies of the twenty-first century.

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“…Moreover, while Mokyr can point to better economic policy in terms, for example, of the abolition of the Statute of Artificers, the Bubble Act and the Usury Laws, the reform of the patent system, and the Repeal of the Corn Laws, many of these were long-delayed. And it is easy to point to major failures of government policy which might well disappoint those imbued with Enlightenment views, for example, the refusal to promote state-financed primary education despite the high social (and fiscal) rate of return it could have delivered (Lindert, 2009), the incompetent regulation of the railway system that involved the construction of a seriously sub-optimal network at high cost (Casson, 2009;Foreman-Peck, 1987), and the obvious shortcomings of company law even in the second half of the nineteenth century (Cottrell, 1980). These really seem to be the outcome of interest-group politics not evidence-based policy design.…”

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Explaining the first Industrial Revolution: two views

Crafts¹

2011

European Review of Economic History

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This review essay looks at the recent books on the British Industrial Revolution by Robert Allen and Joel Mokyr. Both writers seek to explain Britain's primacy. This paper offers a critical but sympathetic account of the main arguments of the two authors considering both the economic logic and the empirical validity of their rival claims. In each case, the ideas are promising but the evidence base seems in need of further support. It may be that eventually these explanations for British economic leadership at the turn of the nineteenth century are recognized as complementary rather than competing.

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Revealing Failures in the History of School Finance

Cited by 6 publications

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The unequal lag in Latin American schooling since 1900: follow the money

The unequal lag in Latin American schooling since 1900: follow the money

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Explaining the first Industrial Revolution: two views

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