Changes in Population, Inequality and Human Capital Formation in the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The evolution of inequality and its causes are of crucial importance to all scholars working across the social sciences. By focusing on the divergent development of North America and Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Camps-Cura offe
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Changes in Population, Inequality and Human Capital Formation in the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries A Comparative Perspective Enriqueta Camps-Cura
Palgrave Studies in Economic History
Series Editor Kent Deng London School of Economics London, UK
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Enriqueta Camps-Cura
Changes in Population, Inequality and Human Capital Formation in the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries A Comparative Perspective
Enriqueta Camps-Cura Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona, Spain
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Acknowledgements
This book represents an update of a research project that began years ago, during a nearly two-year long leave (2005–2006) at University of Harvard (Economics Department), thanks to an invitation to visit this university from Jeffrey G. Williamson. My visit to Harvard implied a change of methodology and research goals, from micro history to macro comparative economic hi
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