Human Capital in the Nordic Countries is a project to catalogue educational attainment across Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland over the long term. Our goal is to unlock access to an extensive range of detailed student-level information in order to explore the contribution of education to Scandinavia’s economic development. We use state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to transcribe historic source material, with this data in turn linked to population-wide registers (such as census records). You can read more about the project.
The HCNC project is a collaborative endeavour, drawing on researchers at universities and partner institutions in Denmark, Germany, Norway and Sweden.
Research
- Breaking barriers Discovering the historical roots of gender disparities in high school performance
- Faroe-tales A long-term view of educational attainment on the Faroe Islands
- Lessons from Oslo National universities, access to higher education, and long-run development
- Not the best at filling in forms? The Danish and Norwegian graduate biographies as a source for measuring human capital
- On the right track? Railways and upward mobility in 19th century Denmark
- Students of technology, captains of industry? Higher education, entrepreneurship and inventive activity in Sweden and Denmark, 1829–1929
Completed work
- Connecting formal education and practice to agricultural innovation in Denmark A note on sources and methods
- Leaving their mark Using Danish student grade lists to construct a more detailed measure of historical human capital