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Go, Sun; Lindert, Peter H. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007
Three factors help to explain why school enrollments in the Northern United States were higher than those in the South and in most of Europe by 1850. One was affordability: the northern states had higher real incomes, cheaper teachers, and greater local tax support. The second was the greater autonomy of local governments. The third was the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Tax Allocation