Ownership Structure and Literacy: Evidence Across Spanish Districts in Late 19th Century

Alberto Basso

Review of Economics and Institutions, 2014, vol. 5, issue 2

Abstract: This paper studies the association between ownership structure and literacy across Spanish districts in the late 19th century. We nd a positive correlation between the ownership rate of the type of livestock mostly used in agriculture (i.e. cattle) and the literacy rate, which is robust to controlling for a large set of factors including spatial correlation. We observe a similar association also for the second type of livestock mostly used in agriculture (i.e. mules). This result suggests that the structure of livestock ownership, which is used as a proxy for land ownership, played a role in shaping literacy rates. We use a province-level analysis to assess the importance of demand and supply channels in determining this correlation.

Keywords: ownership; education; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N33 O15 O43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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