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Natural land productivity, cooperation and comparative development.
- Source :
- Journal of Economic Growth; Dec2016, Vol. 21 Issue 4, p351-408, 58p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- This research advances the hypothesis that natural land productivity in the past, and its effect on the desirable level of cooperation in the agricultural sector, had a persistent effect on the evolution of social capital, the process of industrialization and comparative economic development across the globe. Exploiting exogenous sources of variations in land productivity across (a) countries; (b) individuals within a country, (c) migrants of different ancestry within a country, and (d) individuals residing in regions within a country, the research establishes that lower level of land productivity in the past is associated with more intense cooperation and higher levels of contemporary social capital and development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13814338
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Economic Growth
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 119279597
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-016-9134-7