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Property Rights and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Natural Experiment


Liam Brunt


NHH - Norwegian School of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
November 8, 2011

NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 20/2011

Abstract:     
In 1795 the British took control of the Cape colony (South Africa) from the Dutch; and in 1843 they exogenously changed the legal basis of landholding, giving more secure property rights to landholders. Since endowments and other factors were held constant, these changes offer clean tests of the effects on economic growth of colonial identity and secure property rights. The effects of both changes were immediate, positive and large. Other legal and institutional changes, such as the move to a common law system in 1827, had no such effects on economic growth.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 56

Keywords: Economic growth, legal origins, property rights

JEL Classification: N47, O43

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Date posted: December 8, 2011  

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Brunt, Liam, Property Rights and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (November 8, 2011). NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 20/2011. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1969882 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1969882

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Liam Brunt (Contact Author)
NHH - Norwegian School of Economics ( email )
Department of Economics
Helleveien 30
N-5035 Bergen, Hordaland
Norway

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
77 Bastwick Street
London, EC1V 3PZ
United Kingdom
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