Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247111 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
EHES Working Paper No. 181
Publisher: 
European Historical Economics Society (EHES), s.l.
Abstract: 
This work provides data on human capital for the Guarani Jesuit missions during the 18th century. Based on the age heaping methodology, the results of a large sample (over 3,600 observations) suggest that the knowledge of numerical skills in these missions was exceptional. A comparison with other regions and locations with different institutional frameworks, religious or otherwise, or led by other religious orders, confirms the exceptionality of the Guarani Jesuit missions. The model of these missions, based on productive self-sufficiency and egalitarian and cohesive social organization, as well as respect for the pre-existing culture exemplified by their Guaraníization and adaptation to the Guarani world view and language, could explain their successful educational performance and the intergenerational transmission of human capital beyond the disappearance of the Jesuit missions after 1767.
Subjects: 
Human Capital
Economic Development
Numeracy
Institutions
JEL: 
I21
I25
J24
O4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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