Local institutions and human capital formation in pre-industrial societies: evidence from Valencia
本文利用1860年瓦伦西亚市级识字率数据，分析1609年驱逐摩里斯科人后基督教重新定居地区的制度差异对人力资本的影响，发现男性识字率在摩里斯科地区持续较低，但20世纪初该效应消失，表明自由国家的建立逐渐使教育成果脱离旧制度下的制度异质性。
Abstract This article analyses the relationship between institutions and human capital formation. We use literacy rates in 1860 at the municipal level in Valencia where the expulsion of the Moriscos in 1609 was followed by the Christian resettlement. Our findings show that male literacy was consistently lower in Morisco areas by mid-19th century. Yet, the analysis also shows the disappearance of this effect at the beginning of the 20th century. We argue that the deployment of the liberal state would have entailed the gradual decoupling of educational outcomes from the institutional heterogeneity characteristic of the Old Regime.