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Most research on inequality in pre-industrial economies has focused on either wealth or income, generating not readily comparable results. In this paper, we use a unique data set of Spain circa 1750 including information on (among other things) wealth and income for the same sample of households. Our findings provide methodological insights showing...
In contrast to the debates of the past, which focused mainly on income inequality and the related elements of injustice, the recent interest in economic inequality focuses on its effects on economic growth and social development. New research is an important element of these recent debates: a historical approach that contextualizes inequality with...
Using the Ensenada Cadastre, a unique database on Castilian households circa 1750, this paper provides new evidence on the relationship between human capital and male labor earnings in eighteenth-century Spain. Human capital is proxied by individual indicators of basic skills (literacy and numeracy) and of occupational skills. We employ a Mincerian...
Research on economic inequality in early modern Europe is complicated by the lack of appropriate data for reconstructing income or wealth distributions. This article presents a study of income inequality in mid-eighteenth-century Old Castile (Spain) using the Ensenada Cadastre, a census conducted between 1749 and 1759. The article describes the inf...
This article examines the determinants of the Spanish National Lottery between 1850 and 2000. The sales data are from Gaceta de Madrid (1850-1920), Cuentas de Tesoreros (Sección de Hacienda) of Administración General Estado Archive (1939-1955) and the Annual Reports from LAE (1985-2000). The results provide a detailed examination of the socioeconom...
The study of monetary phenomena and an understanding of price determination in modern Europe are too often limited by scarcity of good-quality data sets on the evolution across time of such variables as money holdings, income, or wealth. In this article we show that information contained in probate inventories can be extremely useful in circumventi...
This paper examines the recent decentralization of governance in Indonesia and its impact on local infrastructure provision. The decentralization of decisionmaking power to local jurisdictions in Indonesia may have improved the matching of public infrastructures provision with local preferences. However, decentralization has made local public infra...
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En este artículo se estudia la demanda de textiles por parte de las families castellanas de la provincia de Palencia entre 1750 y 1850. A partir de un análisis sistemático de inventarios post mortem , se constata un aumento en el consumo de bienes textiles que afectó a todas las capas sociales ubicadas tanto en entornos urbanos como rurales...
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El objetivo primordial de este ensayo es identificar cuáles fueron los determinantes básicos del consumo doméstico de bienes duraderos y semiduraderos en la Castilla del siglo XIX. Hay que distinguir aquellos factores relacionados con variables económicas, es decir, los referidos a la renta familiar y a los elementos que forman parte de ell...
¿Qué tipos de factores influyen en el comportamiento de los consumidores? La respuesta no es fácil. Los factores que determinan las pautas del consumo familiar son bastantes y muy heterogéneos. En principio, cabe distinguir aquellos relacionados con variables económicas, es decir aquellos que tienen que ver con la renta familiar y los elementos que...
