Geography, Land Ownership and Literacy: Historical Evidence from Greek Regions

Nikos Benos, Stelios Karagiannis and Sofia Tsitou

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Abstract: This study examines the impact of land ownership on literacy rates in a cross-section of Greek provinces around 1900. Consistent with our theoretical framework (Galor et al., 2009), we find that the dominance of large properties has a substantial adverse effect on human capital accumulation. Thus, our evidence explains a substantial part of provincial differences in terms of human capital in early 20th century Greece for the first time. This differs from much of the literature, because Greece was at the early stages of the transition to the industrial era during the period examined.

Keywords: Landownership; -; Human; capital; -; Geography; -; Regional; analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 I20 N34 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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