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Title: Inequality in Land Ownership, the Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions and the Great Divergence

Author(s): Oded Galor, Omer Moav and Dietrich Vollrath

Publication Date: March 2008

Keyword(s): Geography, Great Divergence, Growth, Human capital, Institutions and Land Inequality

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: This paper suggests that inequality in the distribution of land ownership adversely affected the emergence of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public schooling) and thus the pace and the nature of the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy, contributing to the emergence of the great divergence in income per capita across countries. The prediction of the theory regarding the adverse effect of the concentration of land ownership on education expenditure is established empirically based on evidence from the beginning of the 20th century in the US.

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Galor, O, Moav, O and Vollrath, D. 2008. 'Inequality in Land Ownership, the Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions and the Great Divergence'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=6751