Inequality in Landownership, the Emergence of Human-Capital Promoting Institutions, and the Great Divergence

Oded Galor; Omer Moav; Dietrich Vollrath

doi:10.1111/j.1467-937x.2008.00506.x

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Review of Economic Studies Vol. 76 No. 1 2009

Inequality in Landownership, the Emergence of Human-Capital Promoting Institutions, and the Great Divergence

Oded Galor¹; Omer Moav²; Dietrich Vollrath³

¹ John Brown University · ² Royal Holloway University of London · ³ University of Houston

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across countries. The prediction of the theory regarding the adverse effect of the concentration of landownership on education expenditure is established empirically based on evidence from the beginning of the 20th century in the U.S.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937x.2008.00506.x
Volume: 76
Issue: 1
Pages: 143-179
Language: en
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Inequality in Landownership, the Emergence of Human-Capital Promoting Institutions, and the Great Divergence

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