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

2008/12/31 by Oded Galor, Omer Moav, Dietrich Vollrath · 4 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Economic Growth and Productivity #Income, Poverty, and Inequality #Economic theories and models #Pace #Divergence (linguistics) #Human capital #Economics #Inequality #Distribution (mathematics) #Great Divergence #Capital (architecture) #Demographic economics #Economic inequality #Per capita #Development economics #Agriculture #Labour economics #Economic growth #Geography #Sociology #China

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

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Abstract

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.

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