Democracy, Land Inequality, and Human Capital Formation

• In Event: Development, Elites, and Redistribution: Historical and Modern Evidence from Around the World

Brief Overview

We examine how rural inequality moderates the effect of democracy on education spending. We show that even in democracies, rural inequality is linked to lower levels of spending on education as a share of GDP.

Authors

• David J. Samuels, University of Minnesota

• Thomas Ricardo Vargas, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities