| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP14561 |
| DP14561 Islam and Human Capital in Historical Spain | |
| Francesco Cinnirella; Alireza Naghavi; Giovanni Prarolo | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-04-05 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper studies the impact of Muslim rule on human capital development. Using a unique novel dataset containing yearly data on Muslim presence in the period 711-1492 and literacy rate in 1900 for about 7500 municipalities in Spain, we estimate the local impact of the length of Muslim rule in the medieval period on literacy rate. Our findings reveal an extremely robust negative relationship between length of Muslim rule and levels of human capital. This result is robust to the inclusion of other possible confounding factors such as the Reconquista and the Inquisition. We argue that the characteristics of Islamic law discouraged the formation of a strong merchant class and subsequently impeded the development of forms of local self-government. This translated into lower levels of human capital for regions longer under Muslim rule. Indeed, panel estimates on a sample of cities provide evidence that locations under Muslim domination missed out on the critical junctures of institutional changes which led to a stagnation in the accumulation of human capital. |
| 主题 | Economic History ; Macroeconomics and Growth |
| 关键词 | Muslim rule Education Literacy Self-government Merchant class Spain |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp14561 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543466 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Francesco Cinnirella,Alireza Naghavi,Giovanni Prarolo. DP14561 Islam and Human Capital in Historical Spain. 2020. |
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