Autori
Ford, Nicholas
Ranestad, Kristin
Sharp, Paul

Titolo
Leaving Their Mark: Using Danish Student Grade Lists to Construct a More Detailed Measure of Historical Human Capital
Periodico
Rivista di storia economica
Anno: 2022 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 29 - Pagina finale: 56

We provide a brief overview of the educational history of Denmark and document archival and printed sources covering the development of primary, secondary, and tertiary education. In particular, we focus on student grade lists, which are available for individuals at all levels of education from the early Nineteenth century until well into the Twentieth century. We suggest that these can be used to construct more detailed measures of human capital than those usually employed, making it possible to deconstruct aggregate levels and types of education into e.g., science or humanities, as well as to measure the extent to which this was actually learned, as captured by the grades achieved. Given the role usually attributed to human capital for development, and perhaps particularly with regards to the Nordic countries, such data has the potential to greatly increase our understanding of how Denmark became the rich and successful country it is today.



SICI: 0393-3415(2022)1<29:LTMUDS>2.0.ZU;2-
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