Income inequality in central Spain, 1690-1800

Santiago-Caballero, Carlos

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Income inequality in central Spain, 1690-1800

dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales	es
dc.contributor.author	Santiago-Caballero, Carlos
dc.date.accessioned	2011-02-09T12:49:34Z
dc.date.available	2011-02-09T12:49:34Z
dc.date.issued	2011-01
dc.description.abstract	This paper studies the evolution of income inequality in central Spain during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, taking as case study the province of Guadalajara. The first part of the paper presents the sources and the dataset that was created to estimate income inequality using grain tithes. The second section shows that through the period grain represented the lion share of total income and therefore that it can be used as a reliable proxy. The following part of the paper introduces an analysis of income inequality in the province during the period 1690 1800 and concludes that inequality decreased during the last third of the eighteenth century. Finally the paper addresses thisunexpected result and concludes that itwas consequence of the success of the land reform carried out by the central government in the late 1760s. The reform was a success in Guadalajara, thanks to the characteristics of its population and the lack of bargaining power of pressure groups.
dc.description.sponsorship	European Community's Seventh Framework Program
dc.description.sponsorship	Financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation project Explicando el desarrollo de las regiones europeas, 1850-2008 ECO2009-13331-C02-01 and from the HI-POD Project, Seventh Research Framework Programme Contract no. 225342	en
dc.description.status	Publicado
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Explorations in Economic History, 2011, v. 48, n. 1, p. 83-96
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.eeh.2010.09.004
dc.identifier.issn	0014-4983
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/10229
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.relation.isversionof	http://hdl.handle.net/10016/9546
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/225342
dc.relation.projectID	Gobierno de España. ECO2009-13331-C02-01
dc.relation.publisherversion	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2010.09.004
dc.rights	©2010 Elsevier
dc.rights.accessRights	open access
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.eciencia	Economía
dc.subject.eciencia	Historia
dc.subject.other	Agrarian history
dc.subject.other	Inequality
dc.subject.other	Pressure groups
dc.subject.other	Institutions
dc.title	Income inequality in central Spain, 1690-1800
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