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Galiani, Sebastián - 2016

In the last years, several countries implemented policy interventions to entitle urban squatters, encouraged by the results of studies showing large welfare gains from entitlement. We study a natural experiment in the allocation of land titles to very poor families in a suburban area of Buenos...

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The Cost of Property Rights : Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918

Maurer, Noel - 2010

We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th century: the redistribution of large estates to their tenants, the creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During...

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Moving Out of Agriculture : Structural Change in Vietnam

McCaig, Brian - 2013

We examine the role of structural change in the economic development of Vietnam from 1990 to 2008. Structural change accounted for a third of the growth in aggregate labor productivity during this period, which averaged 5.1 percent per annum. We discuss the role of reforms in agriculture,...

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Property Rights to Land and Agricultural Organization : An Argentina-United States Comparison

Edwards, Eric C.; Fiszbein, Martín; Libecap, Gary D. - 2022

The contributions of Harold Demsetz offer key insights on how property rights and transaction costs shape economic organization. This guides our comparison of agricultural organization in two comparable regions, the Argentine Pampas and the US Midwest. In the US, land was distributed in small...

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Property Rights, Land Conflict and Tenancy in Brazil

Alston, Lee J. - 2010

Tenancy has been a means for labor to advance their socio-economic condition in agriculture yet in Brazil and Latin … rights in Brazil on the reluctance of landowners to rent because of a fear of expropriation arising from land reform. Since … 1964, the Land Statute in Brazil has targeted rental lands for redistribution. The expropriation of farms, resulting from …

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De Facto and De Jure Property Rights : Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers

Alston, Lee J. - 2010

of Australia, the U.S. and Brazil. We are interested in examining the emergence, sustainability, and collapse of commons … violent self-enforcement or third party enforcement (Brazil). In all three cases the movement from de facto to de jure …

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The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights : Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier

Alston, Lee J.; Schneider, Robert; Libecap, Gary D. - 2021

This paper provides new empirical results regarding the demand and supply of title, its impact on land value, and its effects on agricultural investment on Brazilian frontiers. We use survey data from 1992 and 1993 from the state of Par with data on the characteristics of the settlers, land...

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Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2012

In this study we explore the historical determinants of contemporary Muslim representation. Motivated by a plethora of case studies and historical accounts among Islamicists stressing the role of trade for the adoption of Islam, we construct detailed data on pre-Islamic trade routes, harbors,...

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China's Land Market Auctions : Evidence of Corruption

Cai, Hongbin - 2010

This paper studies the urban land market in China in 2003--2007. In China, all urban land is owned by the state. Leasehold use rights for land for (re)development are sold by city governments and are a key source of city revenue. Leasehold sales are viewed as a major venue for corruption,...

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Land Reform and Productivity : A Quantitative Analysis with Micro Data

Adamopoulos, Tasso - 2020

We assess the effects of a major land policy change on farm size and agricultural productivity using a quantitative model and micro-level data. We study the 1988 land reform in the Philippines that imposed a ceiling on land holdings, redistributed above-ceiling lands to landless and smallholder...

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