Interdisciplinary Seminar in Economic History: Dictatorships and Education: Unraveling the effects of reduced compulsory years of schooling in Greece
16/04/2024 (Seminars)
Bank of Greece, DIESOI
The Historical Archives of the Bank of Greece, in the context of the Interdisciplinary Seminar in Economic History, jointly organised with the Athens University of Economics and Business and Panteion University, invite you to the lecture entitled:
"Dictatorships and Education: Unraveling the effects of reduced compulsory years of schooling in Greece"
Speaker: Nikos Giannakopoulos (University of Patras)
A few words on the topic:
The speaker will present the findings of a project jointly carried out with I. Laliotis. At its core, the project studies the effect of political regime change on education and its effects on fertility outcomes. Focusing on Greece’s military dictatorship, which reduced the compulsory years of schooling from nine to six years, this work examines how this change led to fewer enrollments in secondary schooling. For analytical purposes, census micro data are used and exploit the greater exposure to the reduction in compulsory schooling years experienced by birth cohorts that reached secondary schooling age shortly after the 1967 coup. The findings show that those affected had higher levels of primary education completed. Using measures for women’s completed fertility at older ages we conclude that the cohorts affected by the political regime change are found to have more children during their lifetime. These results suggest that the reduction in compulsory schooling hindered social mobility and plausibly contributed to the increase in inequality observed under dictatorship.
The sessions are held between 17:00-19:00 at the Museum of the Bank of Greece, 3, Amerikis Street, Athens, and are open to the public, without requiring prior registration. The lecture will be delivered in Greek.
The complete programme of upcoming lectures is available on the website of the Interdisciplinary Seminar in Economic History.
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