The Colonial Roots of Land Inequality: Geography, Factor Endowments, or Institutions?

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Wealth Inequality and Democracy (2017, methodology): “To address this, we used cross-national and cross-regional data compiled by Frankema (2008, 2010), drawn from agricultural censuses submitted by individual countries to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization and, prior to that, to the International Institute of Agriculture.”
A story of large landowners and math skills: Inequality and human capital formation in long-run development, 1820–2000 (2014, background): “The situation was similar in Malaysia, where British colonizers introduced large rubber plantations at the end of the 19th century and land inequality probably intensified (Frankema, 2010).”
Landownership Concentration and the Expansion of Education (2016, background): “Similar to Easterly (2007) who uses land suitability for particular crops to identify exogenous variation in inequality, we use soil characteristics at the county level to identify exogenous variation in farm size and, thus, in landownership concentration (see also Frankema, 2010).”