Human Capital Accumulation in Premodern Rural Japan
探讨前现代日本农村人力资本积累的关键因素，包括全国市场形成、人口控制和农民参与乡村行政，这些变化催生了经济上更灵活、更具生产力的个体，有助于解释日本近百年来的经济增长。
Premodern human capital accumulation helps to explain the exceptional growth performance of the Japanese economy in the last hundred years. Prior to this century informal institutions were more important for human capital formation than were the more formal ones familiar today. This paper examines a few seminal changes—national market formation, population control, and the involvement of farmers in rural administration—that were primarily responsible for the emergence of economically responsive, more productive individuals in rural Japan.