. Conflicts over land, sowing the seeds for inequality by creating a landed élite living off rents, are especially likely to … curvilinear relationship between native population density and modern income inequality. Finally, using population density as an … instrument for inequality in the former colonies, we demonstrate that there is no causal relationship running from income …

. Conflicts over land, sowing the seeds for inequality by creating a landed élite living off rents, are especially likely to … curvilinear relationship between native population density and modern income inequality. Finally, using population density as an … instrument for inequality in the former colonies, we demonstrate that there is no causal relationship running from income …

. Conflicts over land, sowing the seeds for inequality by creating a landed elite living off rents, are especially likely to … curvilinear relationship between native population density and modern income inequality. Finally, using population density as an … instrument for inequality in the former colonies, we demonstrate that there is no causal relationship running from income …

rigidity in post-war income inequality levels. This paper explores the causes and consequences of historical land distribution … employing new and existing estimates of land inequality in cross-country OLS regressions. The two central questions addressed … are 1) what explains the cross-country variation in land inequality at the end of the colonial period? 2) how does initial …

standard unified growth model. We measure inequality by the ratio between land rent and wages and show that, before the onset … of the fertility transition, technological progress increased inequality directly through land-biased technological … change and indirectly through increasing population growth. Thefertility transition and the child quantity-quality trade …

economic performance. Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies. In places where mortality …

; Inequality ; Growth …