Brunt, Liam - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2011
In 1795 the British took control of the Cape colony (South Africa) from the Dutch; and in 1843 they exogenously changed the legal basis of landholding, giving more secure property rights to landholders. Since endowments and other factors were held constant, these changes offer clean tests of the...