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Title: Income and Schooling: Evidence from the 1901 Manuscript Census of Canada
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Publication Year: 2001
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Abstract: Over the last one hundred and fifty years, the quantity of formal education provided for most children has risen dramatically. At any time, school enrollment rates have varied substantially across countries, and within countries they have differed by region and family background. We all know that, generally, richer societies have more children at school than poorer societies, and at the level of the individual family, wealthier families are and were more likely to send their children to school, and to send them to school for a longer period, than poor families (e.g. Crafts, 1985). Raising average education levels has long been seen as a means to promote economic development, and reducing income / class / gender barriers to attending school considered as important ways to reduce the incidence of poverty. In this paper, we examine how much schooling was available, and the kinds of children who went to school, in urban Canada at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Authors: Green, Alan, G; MacKinnon, Mary
Publisher: Queen’s University
Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS International
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
Countries: Canada