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The Price of Empowerment : Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania

Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Collin, Matthew; Deininger, Klaus W.; … - 2014

This paper reports on a randomized field experiment that uses price incentives to address economic and gender … some degree of pro-poor price discrimination is justified even from a narrow budgetary perspective. In terms of gender … inequality, the study finds that even small price incentives for female co-titling achieve almost complete gender parity in land …

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Formalizing Rural Land Rights in West Africa : Early Evidence from a Randomized Impact Evaluation in Benin

Goldstein, Markus P.; Houngbedji, Kenneth; Kondylis, … - 2015

coincide with gains in agricultural productivity. The analysis also identifies significant gender-specific effects. Female …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012571557

Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Rural Land Rental Restrictions : Evidence from India

Deininger, Klaus W.; Jin, Songqing; Nagarajan, Hari K. - 2012

Recognition of the potentially deleterious implications of inequality in opportunity originating in a skewed asset distribution has spawned considerable interest in land reforms. However, little attention has been devoted to fact that, in the longer term, the measures used to implement land...

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Property Rights in a Very Poor Country : Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Ethiopia

Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Dercon, Stefan; Gautam, Madhur - 2012

This paper provides evidence from one of the poorest countries of the world that the property rights matter for efficiency, investment, and growth. With all land state-owned, the threat of land redistribution never appears far off the agenda. Land rental and leasing have been made legal, but...

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Securing Property Rights in Transition : Lessons from Implementation of China's Rural Land Contracting Law

Deininger, Klaus W.; Jin, Songqing - 2012

This paper is motivated by the emphasis on secure property rights as a determinant of economic development in recent literature. The authors use village and household level information from about 800 villages throughout China to explore whether legal reform increased protection of land rights...

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Land Rental Markets as an Alternative to Government Reallocation? Equity and Efficiency Considerations in the Chinese Land Tenure system

Deininger, Klaus W.; Jin, Songqing - 2002

The authors develop a model of land leasing with agents characterized by unobserved heterogeneity in ability and presence of an off-farm labor market. In this case, decentralized land rental may contribute to equity and efficiency goals and may have several advantages over administrative...

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Peer Effects in the Demand for Property Rights : Experimental Evidence from Urban Tanzania

Collin, Matthew - 2017

This paper investigates the presence of endogenous peer effects in the adoption of formal property rights. Using data from a unique land titling experiment held in an unplanned settlement in Dar es Salaam, the analysis finds a strong, positive impact of neighbor adoption on the household's...

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Managing Risk with Insurance and Savings : Experimental Evidence for Male and Female Farm Managers in the Sahel

Delavallade, Clara; Dizon, Felipe; Petraud, Jean Paul; … - 2015

higher average yields and were better able to manage food insecurity and shocks. This finding suggests that gender …

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Using Administrative Data to Assess the Impact and Sustainability of Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization

Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Deininger, Klaus W.; Duponchel, … - 2016

Rwanda's completion, in 2012/13, of a land tenure regularization program covering the entire country allows the use of administrative data to describe initial performance and combine the data with household surveys to quantify to what extent and why subsequent transfers remain informal, and how...

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Pronatal Property Rights over Land and Fertility Outcomes : Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Ethiopia

Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Deininger, Klaus W.; Kemper, Niels - 2015

This study exploits a natural experiment to investigate the impact of land reform on the fertility outcomes of households in rural Ethiopia. Public policies and customs created a situation where Ethiopian households could influence their usufruct rights to land via a demographic expansion of the...

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