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The Economic Effects of the English Parliamentary Enclosures
Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James A.; Vollmer, Sebastian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use a dataset of the entire population of English Parliamentary enclosure acts between 1750 and 1830 to provide the first causal evidence of their impact. Exploiting a feature of the Parliamentary process that produced such legislation as a source of exogenous variation, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938741
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Black Americans' Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation : New Evidence on the Significance of 40 Acres
Collins, William J.; Holtkamp, Nicholas C.; Wanamaker, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The US Civil War ended in 1865 without the distribution of land or compensation to those formerly enslaved--a decision often seen as a cornerstone of racial inequality. We build a dataset to observe Black households' landholdings in 1880, a key component of their wealth, alongside a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172157
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The Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl : Short and Long-run Adjustments to Environmental Catastrophe
Hornbeck, Richard - 2009
The 1930's American Dust Bowl was an environmental catastrophe that greatly eroded sections of the Plains. Analyzing new data collected to identify low-, medium-, and high-erosion counties, the Dust Bowl is estimated to have immediately, substantially, and persistently reduced agricultural land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463044
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Land Policy : Founding Choices and Outcomes, 1781-1802
Grubb, Farley - 2009
Victory in the War for Independence brought a vast amount of land within the grasp of the new American nation -- territory stretching from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River between the southern shores of the Great Lakes and Spanish Florida. These lands were initially claimed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463621
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The Assignment of Property Rights on the Western Frontier : Lessons for Contemporary Environmental and Resource Policy
Libecap, Gary D. - 2006
In addressing environmental and natural resource problems, there is a move away from primary reliance upon centralized regulation toward assignment of property rights to mitigate the losses of open-access. I examine the assignment of private property rights during the 19th and early 20th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466063
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Land Misallocation and Productivity
Restuccia, Diego - 2017
Using detailed household-level data from Malawi on physical quantities of outputs and inputs in agricultural production, we measure total factor productivity (TFP) for farms controlling for land quality, rain, and other transitory shocks. We find that operated land size and capital are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455553
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Up from Poverty? The 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery and the Long-run Distribution of Wealth
Bleakley, Hoyt - 2013
The state of Georgia allocated most of its land to the public through a system of lotteries. These episodes provide unusual opportunities to assess the long-term impact of large shocks to wealth, as winning was uncorrelated with individual characteristics and participation was nearly universal...
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An Evaluation of Protected Area Policies in the European Union
Grupp, Tristan Earle; Mishra, Prakash; Reynaert, Mathias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The European Union designates 26% of its landmass as a protected area, limiting economic development to favor biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of land for protection and the causal effect of...
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Is that Really a Kuznets Curve? Turning Points for Income Inequality in China
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as "China's Kuznets curve." We show that … the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little … agrarian policy reforms. Our findings warn against any presumption that the Kuznets process will assure that China has passed …
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Relocating or Redefined : A New Perspective on Urbanization in China
Gan, Li - 2019
China's fast economic growth over the past 40 years has been accompanied by an increasingly rapid rate of urbanization … generally believed to be a dominant driving force. Motivated by a recent finding of a high housing vacancy rate in urban China …, but not to the change of night-time light. These results suggest that an inaccurate account of urbanization is an …
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