Nation-Building and Education
| Autor: | Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, Bryony Reich |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | The Economic Journal. 131:2273-2303 |
| ISSN: | 1468-0297 0013-0133 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/ej/ueab001 |
| Popis: | Democracies and dictatorships have different incentives when it comes to choosing how much and by what means to homogenise the population, i.e., ‘to build a nation’. We study and compare nation-building policies under the transition from dictatorship to democracy in a model where the type of government and borders of the country are endogenous. We find that the threat of democratisation provides the strongest incentive to homogenise. We focus upon a specific nation-building policy: mass primary education. We offer historical discussions of nation-building across time and space, and provide correlations for a large sample of countries over the 1925–2014 period. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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