Lazuka, Volha; Bengtsson, Tommy; Svensson, Patrick - 2023
Enclosures enforced private property rights at the onset of industrialization, yet numerous estimations of the … enclosures' effects on production and productivity rely on non- experimental designs. We estimate the causal effects of enclosure … between 1781 and 1865 in Sweden. Our results demonstrate that enclosures led to a 3.4 percent annual growth in land …