Educational Choice in the Era Before Free Public Schooling
Evidence from German Immigrant Children in Pennsylvania, 1771-1817
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5149167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Farley Grubb (0000-0001-7952-105X, University of Delaware, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 363-375 |
| Publication date | 1992-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700010792 |
| OpenAlex | W2016167411 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 20 |
Education clauses in 3,478 immigrant servant contracts are used to measure the incidence of schooling versus informal instruction by location, age, and sex. The proportion of servants receiving education was high, over 20 percent being taught outside of schools. Education expanded between 1770 and 1800 through a net increase in schooling rather than because of a substitution of schooling for informal instruction. In the 1770s formal schooling in rural areas lagged behind that in urban, but achieved parity by 1800. Little difference in education was found based on gender
Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Formal education · Geography · German · Immigration · Pedagogy · Political science · Public servant · Servant · Sociology · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Public Administration · School Choice and Performance
Government and labor in early America
Pillars of the republic
Literacy and the Social Order
Literacy in Traditional Societies
Loosening the Bonds
The Rise of Literacy and the Common School in the United States
Immigrant Servant Labor
Immigrant Servant Labor
The Auction of Redemptioner Servants, Philadelphia, 1771–1804
Levels of Nineteenth-Century American Investment in Education
The Transformation of Industrial Apprenticeship in the United States
American Education
Colonial immigrant literacy
The incidence of servitude in trans-Atlantic migration, 1771–1804
Loosening the Bonds
German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820
When Did New England Women Acquire Literacy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2006 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |