Geography, landownership inequality, and literacy: historical evidence from Greek regions
研究了20世纪初希腊地区地理与识字率的关系，发现地理通过土地不平等影响识字率，且工业化削弱了这种影响，对理解从停滞到增长转型有参考价值。
Abstract Our work sheds light on the joint role of human capital and geography during the early stages of the transition from stagnation to growth in early twentieth century Greece. We uncover a robust association between geography and literacy. We also show that geography is correlated with land inequality and thus establish that land distribution is a channel through which geography influences literacy. Finally, the impact of geography on human capital formation weakens with industrialization. Our work contributes to the literature on geography and human capital in the transition from stagnation to growth since Greece was at the early stages of the industrial era during the study period.