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Name:  Vincent Carpentier
Email:  carpentier at lameta.univ-montp1.fr
Institution:  University of Economics of Montpellier 1

Co-author: none

Title: Educational Development and Economic Performance in the United
Kingdom : 19th and 20th Centuries

Internet Address of abstracted work: not available

By mail:
carpentier at lameta.univ-montp1.fr

Language: French

Abstract:

The first statistical results shows the post 1945 reversal. The transitory
period of the inter-war years leads to this turning point where education
is not only a tool of correction of economic crises but an engine of
economic growth.  As in Germany and France the secular growth of public
expenditures on education is not linear but reversed to long cycles before
1945 and synchronised after this date.

These results may lead to original economic history interpretations. The
19th century's lag of the UK in terms of public effort devoted to education
has progressively been reduced during the 20th century. In spite of this
growing effort it seems that the quantitative gap is still present and that
the qualitative aspect (difficult to measure as a product of education).

The Climacteric debate dealing with the structural loss of the English
dynamic of productivity is a central entry point of our study. Our results
seem to analyse the blockage of the economic growth based on an endogenous
factor (Crafts). At the same time, the fact that there is reduced gap in
term of education, the exogeneous thesis of McCloskey based on a lag of
production factors can explain a part of it. This debate opponning
quantitative and qualitative default of the economic growth is central for
us because it introduces education by its effects on productivity.

This thesis is available in the Montpellier I Economics Library, the London
Institute of Education Library


Bibliography: Carpentier, Vincent.  "Educational Development and Economic
Performance in the United Kingdom : 19th and 20th Centuries."  ThËse de
Doctorat en Sciences Economiques, Université Montpellier I, 2 Vol, 2000.


Subject:  D
Geographical Area:  4
Country/Region:  UK
Time Period:  0

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