Numeracy and the legacy of slavery Age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s-1880s

dc.contributor.author	Rönnbäck, Klas
dc.contributor.author	Galli, Stefania
dc.contributor.author	Theodoridis, Dimitrios
dc.date.accessioned	2024-03-04T12:32:01Z
dc.date.available	2024-03-04T12:32:01Z
dc.date.issued	2024-02
dc.description.abstract	In many slave societies, enslaved persons were barred from acquiring much education. What skills the enslaved persons nonetheless were able to acquire, and how this changed following emancipation, is not well known. We study quantitatively how a legacy of slavery impacted upon the development of basic numeracy skills. Our results show that numeracy skills started to improve in the population under study well before emancipation from slavery. We also show that the formal public and private schooling seems to have played a marginal role in this process. We therefore conclude that much of this learning was acquired in informal ways.	sv
dc.identifier.issn	1653-1000 online version
dc.identifier.issn	1653-1019 print version
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/2077/80218
dc.language.iso	eng	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Göteborg Papers in Economic History 36	sv
dc.subject	Numeracy	sv
dc.subject	age-heaping	sv
dc.subject	slavery	sv
dc.subject	colonialism	sv
dc.subject	human capital	sv
dc.title	Numeracy and the legacy of slavery Age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s-1880s	sv
dc.type	Text	sv
dc.type.svep	report	sv

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