| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP17278 |
| DP17278 Colonial Paradox: Sugar, Property Rights and Land Inequality in Java | |
| Pim de Zwart; Phylicia Soekhradj | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-05-04 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Sugar production is often associated with higher levels of economic inequality, particularly when taking place under colonial extractive institutions. Colonial Java is an illuminating case where the reverse was true. This paper presents detailed district-level data to suggest that, due to the specifics of the local institutional context, sugar production in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries stimulated the expansion and persistence of communal landholding. This communal landholding consequently led to more equally distributed plots in the early twentieth century. An IV strategy, using a newly computed index of sugar suitability as instrument, is used to suggest the effect is causal. This paper shows the importance of local property rights institutions in determining the effects of export production on socioeconomic outcomes. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; Economic History |
| 关键词 | Property rights Institutions Colonialism Inequality Indonesia Cash crops |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp17278 |
| 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/546298 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Pim de Zwart,Phylicia Soekhradj. DP17278 Colonial Paradox: Sugar, Property Rights and Land Inequality in Java. 2022. |
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