Lordships

This page provides a dataset about ancien-regime Spain collected for the paper “Delegating Governmental Authority to Private Actors: Lordships, State Capacity and Development” (Daniel Oto-Peralías…).

The dataset includes institutional, demographic, and labor-occupational variables of all population entities covered by the Floridablanca Census of 1787 (INE). The data are provided both for 1787 localities and aggregated for current municipalities. It further includes a large array of geographic variables for Spain and additional data for its south-western region of the Kingdom of Granada.

Spanish dataset: click here to download [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Granada dataset: click here to download. [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Please cite the data as: Daniel Oto-Peralías (2025). “Delegating Governmental Authority to Private Actors: Lordships, State Capacity and Development” ASDFASDFASDF

The code to replicate the paper is available here [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]