articleThe Review of Economic StudiesDec 31, 2008Closed access

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

John Brown University · Royal Holloway University of London · +1 more institution

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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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Keywords
  • Pace
  • Divergence (linguistics)
  • Human capital
  • Economics
  • Inequality
  • Distribution (mathematics)
  • Great Divergence
  • Capital (architecture)
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • No poverty
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