Land reform and rural conflict. Evidence from 1930s Spain
Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/59665DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2023.101530
ISSN: 0014-4983
Date
2023-07Affiliation
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de EconomíaBibliographic citation
Explorations in Economic History, 2023, v. 89
Keywords
Property rights
Land reform
Conflict
Interwar Europe
Spain
Revolution
Socialism
Civil war
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
Re-distributive policies are often used by governments to forestall conflict. This paper analyzes the evolution of rural conflict in a region of 1930s Spain in which fast transfers of land using temporal expropriations were aimed at reducing poverty and mitigate conflict. Using a subset of exogenous land transfers, we document that these transfers did not reduce conflict. If anything, they increased some types of conflicts for several months after implementation. The short run increase in conflict is consistent with two potential side effects of land reforms. First, land reforms can boost the collective action of beneficiaries. Second, poorly designed reforms can reduce the incomes of beneficiaries.
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