We study the relationship between large landownership concentration and the expansion of
mass education in nineteenth-century Prussia. Cross-sectional estimates show a negative …

The early establishment and persistence of landholding inequality is linked to poor long-run
development outcomes. One crucial channel runs through human capital: large landowners …

Pro-market and pro-farmer agrarian reforms enacted in eighteenth century Denmark laid the
basis for rural development but we demonstrate that they also resulted in increased …

The ownership and use of land are increasingly being threatened by rapid urbanization and
unsustainable resource consumptions. In Nigeria, the land is faced with enormous pressure …

Human capital is now widely acknowledged as one of the key determinants of economic
growth. Research on how human skills accumulate and evolve through time has grown …

Following the protest movements and radicalism of the late sixties, many affluent countries
experienced lethal revolutionary terrorism. Groups like the Red Brigades in Italy and the Red …

When do economic and political elites demand investment in public goods and services?
The prevailing view is that non-democratic governments engage in low levels of government …

There is a vast literature on the effects of land inequality and agrarian reforms, but little on
the origins of this inequality. We exploit a new and unique parish-level database of land …

We examine the impact of ethnic fractionalization and conflict on limiting the educational
development in Southeastern Turkey. Our estimates show that although the armed conflict in …

A vast literature documents the effects of economic and political inequality on development
and growth. A significant part of this literature focuses on the political economy channel and …