Great Leap into Famine

famine, China, communism

School Attendance and Literacy before the Famine: A Simple Baronial Analysis

This paper complements a much larger study of school attendance in pre-famine Ireland by FitzGerald (2010). It exploits some of the data generated by that study to analyze further some of the determinants of schooling and literacy in the 1820s and 1840s.Ireland, economic history, literacy, human capital