Land Access Inequality and Education in Pre-industrial Spain

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• Dr Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia (with Julio Martínez-Galarraga) (Cambridge)
• Monday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:00
• Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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This paper analyses information from the 464 districts existent in mid-19th century Spain and confirms that there is a negative relationship between land access inequality and literacy rates. This result does not disappear when a large set of potential confounding factors are included in the analysis. The use of the Reconquest as a quasi-natural experiment allows us to rule out further concerns about potential endogeneity. Likewise, by employing data on schooling enrolment rates and number of teachers, this paper explores the mechanisms behind the observed relationship in order to ascertain to which extent demand or supply factors are responsible for it. Lastly, the gender composition of the data, which enables distinguishing between female and male literacy levels, together with boys and girls schooling enrolment rates, is also examined.

This talk is part of the Quantitative History Seminar series.

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