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Title: Human Capital and Social Capital: The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910-1940

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Publication Year: 2000

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Abstract: The United States led all other nations in the development of universal and publicly funded secondary school education, and much of the growth occurred from 1910 to 1940. The focus of this article is on why the "high school movement" occurred in America generally and why it occurred so early and swiftly in America's heartland-a region we dub the "education belt." Since Iowa was at the center of this belt, we use information from the unique Census of Iowa for 1915 at both the county and individual level to explore the factors that propelled states like Iowa to embrace so expensive a public good as secondary school education...

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Authors: Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F.

Editors: Robert I. Rotberg,

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Volume Title: Patterns of Social Capital: Stability and Change in Historical Perspective

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publisher Location: Boston, MA

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education

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