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| Titre : | Human capital accumulation in France at the dawn of the XIXth century : Lessons from the Guizot Inquiry |
| Auteurs : | Magali Jaoul-Grammare ; Charlotte Le Chapelain |
| Type de document : | document électronique |
| Editeur : | New York : Springer, 2019 |
| Format : | pp. 237-259 |
| Note générale : | In : C. Diebolt, A. Rijpma, S. Carmichael, S. Dilli, C. Störmer (Eds)., Cliometrics of the family |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Affiliation Céreq Céreq - Centre associé de StrasbourgThésaurus CEREQ THEORIE DU CAPITAL HUMAIN ; ETUDE HISTORIQUE ; FRANCE ; SCOLARISATIONAuteur Cité Guizot François |
| Résumé : | Building on the results of the Guizot inquiry, carried out in autumn 1833on the initiative of François Guizot, the minister of public instruction, this articleexamines the process of human capital accumulation in the early nineteenth-centuryFrance. We rely on an original measure of human capital—student progress—tohighlight the high level of heterogeneity in human capital accumulation in thisperiod. We identify two types of schools in the French educational landscape:first,large schools, well-endowed in human and material resources, which contributed agreat deal to human capital accumulation, and, second, small schools, characterisedby some degree of amateurism and improvisation, which weakly contributed tohuman capital formation. We note that the use of literacy rates or school enrolmentrates can be misleading with regard to the estimation of French human capitalendowments, laying emphasis instead on the heterogeneity in the French educationallandscape at the dawn of the nineteenth century, as the country embarked on theprocess of industrialisation |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| n° fiche programme : | 108 |
