02125cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF002980 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451857610 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Erickson, Lennart. Dimensions of Land Inequality and Economic Development / Lennart Erickson, Dietrich Vollrath. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004. 1 online resource (24 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students There are several theories linking land inequality with aspects of economic development. Empirical work on these theories has attempted to establish a relationship between land inequality and institutions, financial development, and education. This research, though, has relied on measures of land inequality that capture only inequality within the class of landholders, ignoring completely the issue of landlessness. This omission raises suspicion about the usefulness of those empirical results. We use a new measure of the breadth of landholdings across the agricultural population to address this issue. We test the proposed relationships regarding land inequality and development using the new measure. The regressions fail to find significant and robust relationships between land inequality of either type and institutions or financial development. We do find that lower land inequality across agricultural populations, but not inequality within the landholding class, is associated with greater public provision of education. Mode of access: Internet Vollrath, Dietrich. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/158 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2004/158/001.2004.issue-158-en.xml IMF e-Library