Non-Financial Hurdles for Human Capital Accumulation: Landownership in Korea under Japanese Rule

Jun, Bogang (2012): Non-Financial Hurdles for Human Capital Accumulation: Landownership in Korea under Japanese Rule.

Abstract

This paper suggests that inequality of landownership is a non-financial hurdle for human capital accumulation. It is the first to present evidence that inequality of landownership had an adverse effect on the level of public education in the Korean colonial period. Exploiting variations in inequality in land concentration across regions in Korea and accounting for unobserved heterogeneity across theses regions, using a fixed effect model, the analysis establishes a highly significant adverse effect of land inequality on education in Korea’s colonial period.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Land inequality, Education, Development, Korean economic history
• Subjects: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions; N - Economic History > N3 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy > N35 - Asia including Middle East; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q1 - Agriculture > Q15 - Land Ownership and Tenure ; Land Reform ; Land Use ; Irrigation ; Agriculture and Environment

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