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...

This paper contributes to the scholarship on the local impacts of land investments by analysing how the expanding presence of investors in a Tanzanian village has led to land conflicts. Moreover, I seek to understand why two land conflicts have unfolded in different ways in the same Tanzanian...