<style id="elementor-post-31774">.elementor-31774 .elementor-element.elementor-element-72e431ae:not(.elementor-motion-effects-element-type-background) > .elementor-widget-wrap, .elementor-31774 .elementor-element.elementor-element-72e431ae > .elementor-widget-wrap > .elementor-motion-effects-container > .elementor-motion-effects-layer{background-color:#FFFFFF;}.elementor-31774 .elementor-element.elementor-element-72e431ae > .elementor-element-populated{transition:background 0.3s, border 0.3s, border-radius 0.3s, box-shadow 0.3s;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;--e-column-margin-right:0px;--e-column-margin-left:40px;padding:0px 40px 0px 40px;}.elementor-31774 .elementor-element.elementor-element-72e431ae > .elementor-element-populated > .elementor-background-overlay{transition:background 0.3s, border-radius 0.3s, opacity 0.3s;}.elementor-31774 .elementor-element.elementor-element-bf8f335 .elementor-button{background-color:transparent;background-image:linear-gradient(180deg, #5749F0CF 0%, #F2295B08 100%);border-radius:40px 40px 40px 40px;}.elementor-31774 .elementor-element.elementor-element-bf8f335 > .elementor-widget-container{margin:0px 0px 30px 0px;}</style>{"id":31774,"date":"2022-07-13T10:50:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T10:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irpps.cnr.it\/landownership-concentration-and-human-capital-accumulation-in-post-unification-italy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:07:35","slug":"landownership-concentration-and-human-capital-accumulation-in-post-unification-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irpps.cnr.it\/en\/landownership-concentration-and-human-capital-accumulation-in-post-unification-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Landownership concentration and human capital accumulation in post-unification Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"31774\" class=\"elementor elementor-31774 elementor-18945\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3c653466 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3c653466\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-72e431ae\" data-id=\"72e431ae\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-182a2daa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"182a2daa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>This is the title of the article published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irpps.cnr.it\/vitantonio-mariella\/\">Vitantonio Mariella<\/a> in the June 2022 issue of the journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/148\">Journal of Population Economics<\/a><\/em> published by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/\">Springer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8220;This paper contributes to the debate on institutions and economic development by assessing the relationship between landownership concentration and education. Using historical data at both the district and province levels in post-unification Italy from 1871 to 1921, I find evidence of an adverse effect of land inequality on literacy rates. Instrumental variable estimates using malaria pervasiveness as a source of exogenous variation rule out concerns regarding potential endogeneity. Exploration of the panel dimension of the data reveals that several shocks during this period affected the relationship between land inequality and literacy rates. In addition, this paper provides insights into the mechanism behind this relationship by analyzing the impact on intermediate outputs, such as enrollment rates in primary school, child-teacher ratio, school density, child labor, and municipality expenditures. 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