Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1998
the center of this belt' was the state of Iowa and we use information from the unique 1915 Iowa State Census to explore … the factors, at both the county and individual levels, that propelled states like Iowa to embrace secondary school … education very early. Iowa's small towns, as well as those across the nation, were the loci of the high school movement. In an …