The Socioeconomic Return to Primary Schooling in Victorian England
利用1851年和1881年人口普查数据，分析维多利亚时代英格兰学龄男童的入学决定及入学对成年后劳动力市场结果的影响，发现教育对职业阶层有正向作用且工资收益可能超过成本，但效果小于父亲阶层且小于现代结果。
In this article I provide a micro-level analysis of primary schooling in Victorian England. Using a new dataset of school-age males linked between the 1851 and 1881 population censuses, I examine the determinants of childhood school attendance and the impact of attendance on adult labor market outcomes. I find that schooling had a positive effect on adult occupational class and that the associated wage gains were likely to have outweighed the cost of schooling. However, this effect was small relative to father's class, and the effect of education on earnings appears to have been small relative to modern results.