The expansion of public education in Puerto Rico after 1900

Matthew Curtis*, Mateo Uribe-Castro

*Kontaktforfatter

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Abstract

During the first half of the twentieth century, Puerto Rico saw rapid progress in expanding primary education. However, as elsewhere in Latin America, there were pronounced regional differences in the rates of increased schooling. Due to its varied crop suitability and detailed records from the US colonial government, Puerto Rico is an ideal setting to explore the role of agriculture in explaining regional variation in the growth of education. This chapter presents a newly constructed panel dataset of enrollment and attendance rates by counties between 1907 and 1943. It finds that differing agricultural production technologies, alongside policy decisions and rates of urbanization, help explain why the growth rate of education varied across regions. JEL: N16, N56, O15.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelRoots of Underdevelopment : a new economic and political history of Latin America and the Caribbean
RedaktørerFelipe Valencia Caicedo
UdgivelsesstedCham
ForlagSpringer
Publikationsdato2023
Sider523-553
ISBN (Trykt)978-3-031-38722-7
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-3-031-38723-4
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2023

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