Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247126 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
EHES Working Paper No. 196
Publisher: 
European Historical Economics Society (EHES), s.l.
Abstract: 
In this article we explore the relationship between institutions and educational performance from a historical perspective. Relying on municipal-level information for the Spanish region of Valencia, our study explores the economic effects of the delegation of power during the ancien regime from the Crown to local elites through the establishment of lordships, compared to that remained under royal jurisdiction. We assess whether these lordships, in their late-eighteenth- century configuration, had an impact on male literacy rates in the mid-nineteenth century. We also analyse whether a negative differential effect emerged in areas that were mainly inhabited by Moriscos, populations who lived under particularly harsh conditions. In addition to this institutional diversity, we investigate whether the regulations governing the education system could have generated a negative effect due to a mismatch between the language of schooling (Spanish) and the population's language of use (Catalan). By isolating each of these effects, our findings show that literacy rates were consistently lower in Catalan-speaking lordships inhabited by Moriscos.
Subjects: 
Education
Institutions
Inequality
Language
JEL: 
N33
I24
I25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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