Law, Endowments, and Property Rights
Law, Endowments, and Property Rights
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10.1257/089533005774357842
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2005-08
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R. Levine
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R. Levine
2500多年来，学者们一直在假设产权变化的来源，但直到最近，研究人员才开始用实证来检验这些理论。本文回顾了支持和反驳法律和禀赋产权观的理论和实证证据。法律观点认为，各国法律传统中历史决定的差异继续影响着各国在产权方面的差异。禀赋论认为，在欧洲殖民时期，气候、作物、土著人口和疾病环境的差异影响了长期的产权。
While scholars have hypothesized about the sources of variation in property rights for over 2500 years, it is only very recently that researchers have begun to test these theories empirically. This paper reviews both the theory and empirical evidence supporting and refuting the law and endowment views of property rights. The law view holds that historically determined differences in national legal traditions continue to shape cross-country differences in property rights. The endowment view argues that during European colonization, differences in climate, crops, the indigenous population, and the disease environment influenced long-run property rights.