This article investigates the impact of industrial activities on primary instruction in early nineteenth-century France. To do so, I use a newly constituted database on the location and characteristics of primary schools at the level of municipalities. This database is extracted from the Guizot survey conducted in 1833, before the implementation of the first national law making the opening of a school mandatory in any municipality more than 500 inhabitants. By using mineral deposits as an instrument, I first show that the presence of industrial activities in a given municipality was positively influencing the presence of primary schools. An increase in the supply of schools by municipalities explains this association. Additional resources transferred to them by manufactures favoured this increase through an income effect. However, I find no significant link between industry and the accumulation of human capital. On the contrary, I provide indications that industrial activities were associated with lower enrolment rates. If they had a positive impact on the demand for schooling, it was only for a very restricted part of the population.

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19世纪初法国的工业活动和小学教育

本文调查了十九世纪初法国工业活动对初级教学的影响。为此，我使用了一个新建立的有关市级小学位置和特征的数据库。该数据库是从1833年进行的Guizot调查中提取的，在第一部国家法律实施之前，该法律规定在任何城市都要开设500余名居民的学校。通过使用矿床作为一种工具，我首先表明，特定城市中工业活动的存在对小学的存在产生了积极的影响。市政当局增加学校供应的原因是这种联系。制造商转移给他们的其他资源通过收入效应促进了这种增长。然而，我发现工业与人力资本积累之间没有显着联系。相反，我指出工业活动与入学率降低有关。如果它们对入学需求产生积极影响，那么这仅适用于非常有限的一部分人口。