Globalization and educational inequality during the 18 th to 20 th centuries
Latin America in global comparison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11394604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joerg Baten (0000-0001-5029-501X, University of Tübingen, corresponding author), Christina Mumme (University of Tübingen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 279-305 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0212-6109 • E-ISSN: 2041-3335 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s021261091000008x |
| OpenAlex | W2108371481 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 35 |
This paper explores the inequality of numeracy and education by studying school years and numeracy of the rich and poor, as well as of tall and short individuals. To estimate numeracy, the age-heaping method is used for the 18 th to early 20 th centuries. Testing the hypothesis that globalization might have increased the inequality of education, we find evidence that 19 th century globalization actually increased inequality in Latin America, but 20 th century globalization had positive effects by reducing educational inequality in a broader sample of developing countries. Moreover, we find strong evidence for Kuznets’s inverted U hypothesis, that is, rising educational inequality with GDP per capita in the period until 1913 and the opposite after 1945
Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Globalization · Inequality · Latin Americans · Literacy · Numeracy · Per capita · Political science · Population · Sociology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Demography · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Mathematics
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| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |