Introducing HESSS: home economics at Swiss secondary schools

Abstract

Education policy has increasingly gained the attention of political scientists. Owing to its decentralised structure and the ensuing variation across cantons, the Swiss education system is a great place to study questions about the determinants and consequences of education policy. However, partly for the same reason, structured and detailed (historical) comparative data about curricula — who was was taught what, when, where and how — is relatively rare. We contribute to closing this gap by introducing HESSS, a novel dataset on the pr Show more