This paper suggests that inequality in the distribution of landownership adversely affected the emergence of human-capital promoting institutions ("e.g". public schooling), and thus the pace and the nature of the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy, contributing to the...

This paper suggests that inequality in the distribution of landownership adversely affected the emergence of human-capital promoting institutions (e.g. public schooling), and thus the pace and the nature of the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy, contributing to the...