Plausibly Exogenous [1587] - Land Inequality (06/07/2024)

LHS Variable
Income and enterpreneurship

RHS Variable
Land inequality

Source of Exogenous Variation
Variation in land inheritance rules that traverse political, linguistic, geological, and religious borders in Germany — in some German areas, inherited land was to be shared or divided equally among children, while in others land was ruled to be indivisible

- Bartels, Jager, and Obergruber (2024), “Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land”