Good schools make good neighbors: Human capital spillovers in early 20th century agriculture

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Parman
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Good Schools

Public schools for private gain

2018 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F. Labaree
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Public Good ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
School System ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gradual Shift ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

Eminent historian David Labaree describes a gradual shift, over the last two centuries, in Americans’ beliefs and attitudes about the goals of public education. At its founding, our school system was designed mainly to serve the public good, conceived at the time as an effort to create a unified citizenry. By the early 20th century, the schools were understood to serve the public good by developing human capital. More recently, though, the public aims of schooling have faded from view, as Americans have come to see education mostly as a private resource.

Net nutrition on the late 19th and early 20th century American Great Plains: a robust biological response to the challenges to the Turner Hypothesis

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 698-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Alan Carson
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Great Plains ◽  
Safety Valve ◽  
Biological Response ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Frederick Jackson Turner ◽  
Western Frontier ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Net Nutrition

AbstractIn 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner proposed that America’s Western frontier was an economic ‘safety-valve’ – a place where settlers could migrate when conditions in eastern states and Europe crystallized against their upward economic mobility. However, recent studies suggest the Western frontier’s material conditions may not have been as advantageous as Jackson proposed because settlers lacked the knowledge and human capital to succeed on the Plains and Far Western frontier. Using stature, BMI and weight from five late 19th and early 20th century prisons, this study uses 61,276 observations for men between ages 15 and 79 to illustrate that current and cumulative net nutrition on the Great Plains did not deteriorate during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, indicating that recent challenges to the Turner Hypothesis are not well supported by net nutrition studies.

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