Publication: Land reform and rural conflict: evidence from 1930s Spain
dc.affiliation.instituto | UC3M. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales | es |
dc.contributor.author | Basco Mascaro, Sergi | |
dc.contributor.author | Domènech Feliu, Jordi | |
dc.contributor.author | Maravall Buckwalter, Laura | |
dc.contributor.editor | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Historia Económica e Instituciones | es |
dc.contributor.funder | Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España) | es |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-15T17:09:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-04-15T17:09:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-04-15 | |
dc.description.abstract | We use a novel high-frequency, municipality-level dataset to examine the impact of land reform on rural conflict in 1930s Spain, a classical example of property rights reform in a developing economy. We distinguish between types of implementation and consider five types of conflicts: land invasions, peasant strikes, clashes, petty theft and attacks on land owner assets. By performing a differences-indifferences regression analysis, we document three main results. First, overall, land reform only increased the number of reported petty thefts, lasting around two years, followed by a reversion to pre-reform levels. Second, the effects of land reform depend on its implementation. A technical implementation was conducive, if anything, to fewer conflicts (clashes and attacks). In contrast, a more political implementation (which gave, on average, less land per peasant) increased reported petty theft sand, to a lower extent, attacks on owners'assets. Third, we provide suggestive evidence that the fall in income of settlers (the, a priori, benefficiaries) explains the increase in social conflict. Our results highlight the importance of the design and implementation of social policies, especially in the context of an agrarian economy. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Basco acknowledges fi nancial support from Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (2017SGR1301) and Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (PID2019-104723RB-I00). Domenech acknowledges fi nancial support from Spain's Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (PID2019-104869GB-100). | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2341-2542 | es |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10016/32377 | |
dc.identifier.uxxi | DT/0000001908 | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working Papers in Economic History | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 21-08 | |
dc.relation.projectID | Gobierno de España. PID2019-104869GB-I00 | es |
dc.relation.projectID | Gobierno de España. PID2019-104723RB-I00 | es |
dc.rights | Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.subject.jel | N54 | |
dc.subject.jel | O13 | |
dc.subject.jel | P14 | |
dc.subject.jel | Q10 | |
dc.subject.jel | Q24 | |
dc.subject.jel | Q28 | |
dc.subject.other | Property Rights | en |
dc.subject.other | Land Reform | en |
dc.subject.other | Conflict | en |
dc.subject.other | Interwar Europe | en |
dc.subject.other | Spain | en |
dc.title | Land reform and rural conflict: evidence from 1930s Spain | en |
dc.type | working paper | * |
dspace.entity.type | Publication |
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