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Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2012

In this study we explore the historical determinants of contemporary Muslim representation. Motivated by a plethora of case studies and historical accounts among Islamicists stressing the role of trade for the adoption of Islam, we construct detailed data on pre-Islamic trade routes, harbors,...

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China's Land Market Auctions : Evidence of Corruption

Cai, Hongbin - 2010

This paper studies the urban land market in China in 2003--2007. In China, all urban land is owned by the state. Leasehold use rights for land for (re)development are sold by city governments and are a key source of city revenue. Leasehold sales are viewed as a major venue for corruption,...

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The Deregularization of Land Titles

Galiani, Sebastián - 2016

In the last years, several countries implemented policy interventions to entitle urban squatters, encouraged by the results of studies showing large welfare gains from entitlement. We study a natural experiment in the allocation of land titles to very poor families in a suburban area of Buenos...

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Land Reform and Productivity : A Quantitative Analysis with Micro Data

Adamopoulos, Tasso - 2020

We assess the effects of a major land policy change on farm size and agricultural productivity using a quantitative model and micro-level data. We study the 1988 land reform in the Philippines that imposed a ceiling on land holdings, redistributed above-ceiling lands to landless and smallholder...

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The Cost of Property Rights : Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918

Maurer, Noel - 2010

We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th century: the redistribution of large estates to their tenants, the creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During...

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Shocking Behavior : Random Wealth in Antebellum Georgia and Human Capital Across Generations

Bleakley, Hoyt - 2013

Does the lack of wealth constrain parents' investments in the human capital of their descendants? We conduct a fifty-year followup of an episode in which such constraints would have been plausibly relaxed by a random allocation of wealth to families. We track descendants of those eligible to win...

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Land Reform and Sex Selection in China

Almond, Douglas - 2013

Following the death of Mao in 1976, agrarian decision-making shifted from the collective to individual households, unleashing rapid growth in farm output and unprecedented reductions in poverty. In new data on reform timing in 914 counties, we find an immediate trend break in the fraction of...

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Property Rights, Land Misallocation and Agricultural Efficiency in China

Chari, A.V. - 2017

This paper examines the impact of a property rights reform in rural China that allowed farmers to lease out their land. We find the reform led to increases in land rental activity in rural households. Consistent with a model of transaction costs in land markets, our results indicate that the...

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The Importance of Economic Policy in Development : Contrasts between Korea and Turkey

Krueger, Anne O. - 2022

In the mid-1950's, Turkey was a much richer country than Korea. With about the same population, Turkish GNP was about … three times that of Korea, Turkish exports were fifteen times those of Korea, and the Turkish savings rate was much higher … than Korean. By 1980, the situation was dramatically reversed, as Turkish income was 40 percent below Korea's, Turkish …

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East Asian Financial and Economic Development

Morck, Randall - 2017

1930s. South Korea, among the world's poorest countries in the 1960s, joined the ranks of First World economies in little …

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