American education in the age of mass migrations 1870-1930

Cliometrica

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 113-139

  Murtin, Fabrice ^a,b,c   Viarengo, Martina ^b,d,e  

^a OECD   (France)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c CREST   (France)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic development research; Economic history; Education; Migrations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951978176     PISSN: 18632505     EISSN: 18632513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11698-009-0043-2     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Atzmon E (1958) The educational programs for immigrants in the United States. Hist Educ J 9(3): 75-80.
2. Baily S (1983) The adjustment of Italian immigrants in Buenos Aires and New York 1870-1914. Am Hist Rev 88(2): 1-305.
3. Baines D (1991) Emigration from Europe 1815-1930, prepared for the Economic History Society. Macmillan Press, London.
4. Bairoch P et al (1968) La population active et sa structure. Universite libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles.
5. Barro R, Lee JW (1996) International measures of schooling years and schooling quality. Am Econ Rev 86(2): 218-223.
6. Becker S, Woessmann L (2009) Was weber wrong? A human capital theory of protestant economic history. Q J Econ (in press).
7. Carlson RA (1984) The americanization syndrome: a quest for conformity. St. Martin's Press, New York.
8. Claxton PP (1920) What is Americanization? Commissioner for education's report, Washington, DC, pp 2-3.
9. Cohn RL (1995) A comparative analysis of European immigrant streams to the United States during the early mass migration. Soc Sci Hist 19(1): 63-89.
10. Erickson CJ (1990) Emigration from the British Isles to the USA in 1841: Part 11. Who were the English emigrants? Popul Stud 44: 21-40.
11. Ferenczi I, Willcox WF (1929a) International migrations, vol 1 statistics. National Bureau of Economic Research, New York.
12. Ferenczi I, Willcox WF (1929b) International migrations, vol 2 interpretations. National Bureau of Economic Research, New York.
13. Fogel RW (1994) Economic growth, population theory, and physiology: the bearing of long-term processes on the making of economic policy. Am Econ Rev 84(3): 369-395.
14. Foreman-Peck J (1992) A political economy of international migration, 1815-1914, vol 60, no 4. The Manchester school of economic and social studies/Blackwell, Oxford, pp 359-376.
15. Goldin C (1994) The political economy of immigration restriction: the United States, 1890-1921. In: Goldin C, Libecap G (eds) The regulated economy: an historical analysis of government and the economy. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
16. Goldin C (1999) A brief history of education in the United States. NBER Working Paper, Historical Series no. 119.
17. Goldin C, Katz L (2000) Education and income in the early twentieth century: evidence from the prairies. J Econ Hist 60: 782-818.
18. Goldin C, Lewis F (1975) The economic cost of the American civil war: estimates and implications. J Econ Hist 35(2): 299-326.
19. Greenwood MJ (2007) Modeling the age and age composition of late 19th century U. S. immigrants from Europe. Explor Econ Hist 44(2): 255-269.
20. Harley CK (1988) Transportation, the world wheat trade, and the Kuznets cycle, 1850-1913. Explor Econ Hist 17: 218-250.
21. Hatton TJ, Williamson JG (1994) What Drove the Mass Migration from Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century? Population and Development Review 20(3): 533-559.
22. Hatton TJ, Williamson JG (1998) The age of mass migration. causes and economic impact. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
23. Hatton TJ, Williamson JG (2005) Global migration and the world economy: two centuries of policy. MIT Press, USA.
24. Historical Statistics of the United States (2009) Millenium edition online. http://hsus. cambridge. org/HSUSWeb/HSUSEntryServlet.
25. Klein HS (2004) A population history of the United States. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
26. Livi-Bacci M (1991) Population and Nutrition an essay on European. Demographic history. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
27. Lindert P (2004) Growing public, vol 2. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.
28. Mitchell BR (2003a) International historical statistics: the Americas 1750-1993. M. Stockton Press, New York.
29. Mitchell BR (2003b) International historical statistics: Europe 1750-1993. M. Stockton Press, New York.
30. Mitchell BR (2003c) International historical statistics: Africa, Asia and Oceania 1750-1993. M. Stockton Press, New York.
31. Morrisson C, Murtin F (2009) The century of education. J Human Cap (in press).
32. North DC (1958) Ocean freight rates and economic development 1750-1913. J Econ Hist 18: 538-555.
33. Nugent W (1992) Crossings, the great transatlantic migrations, 1870-1914. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
34. O'Rourke KH, Taylor AM, Williamson JG (1996) Factor price convergence in the late nineteenth century. Int Econ Rev 37(3): 499-530.
35. O'Rourke KH, Williamson JG (2000) Globalization and history: the evolution of a 19th century atlantic economy. MIT Press, Cambridge.
36. Preston SH (1977) Mortality trends. Annu Rev Sociol 3: 163-178.
37. Sandberg LG (1979) The case of the impoverished sophisticate: human capital and the Swedish economic growth before World War I. J Econ Hist 39(1): 225-241.
38. Sianesi B, van Reenen J (2003) The returns to education: macroeconomics. J Econ Surv 17(2): 157-200.
39. Steidl A, Stockhammer E, Zeitlhofer H (2007) Relations among internal, continental, and transatlantic migration in late imperial Austria. Soc Sci Hist 31(1): 61-92.
40. Thompson FV (1920) The School as the instrument for nationalization, here and elsewhere. In: Davis P (ed) Immigration and Americanization. Gynn and Company, Boston, pp 582-600.
41. Timmer A, Williamson JG (1997) Racism, xenophobia or markets? The political economy of immigration policy prior to the thirties. NBER Working Paper No. 5867.
42. Williamson JG (2006) Inequality and schooling responses. The globalization forces: lessons from history. NBER WP 12553.
43. Woessman L (2003a) Specifying human capital: a review and some extensions. J Econ Surv 17(3): 293-370.
44. Woessman L (2003b) Schooling resources, educational institutions and student performance: the international evidence. Oxf Bull Econ Stat 65(2): 117-170.