The Effects of Land Title Registration on Tenure Security, Investment and the Allocation of Productive Resources

Agyei-Holmes, Andrew; Buehren, Niklas; Goldstein, Markus; Osei, Robert Darko; Osei‐Akoto, Isaac; Udry, Christopher

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“…Second, the share of registered parcels sold or pledged as mortgage more than doubled, an effect that can be attributed to policy-induced reductions in the cost of first time (40%) and subsequent (60%) sporadic registration. Third, systematic registration had no impact on credit access, in line with what is found in the literature evaluating systematic registration programs (Agyei-Holmes et al 2020;Field and Torero 2006;Galiani and Schargrodsky 2010). Substantive results are robust to restricting the sample to the areas chosen as treatment and control for the DID specification, suggesting that the lack of measured impact in the DID analysis is not merely due to selection issues.…”

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“…Argentina. Yet, (peri-) urban titling had effects on credit access neither in Argentina (Galiani and Schargrodsky 2010) nor in Peru (Field and Torero 2006) or Ghana (Agyei-Holmes et al 2020). More importantly from a policy perspective even where titles were successfully issued, high cost of registering subsequent transactions caused reversals to informality in Jamaica (Barnes and Griffith-Charles 2007), the Philippines (Maurer and Iyer 2008), Argentina (Galiani and Schargrodsky 2016) and Peru (Gutierrez and Molina 2020).…”

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Using Registry Data to Assess Gender-Differentiated Land and Credit Market Effects of Urban Land Policy Reform: Evidence from Lesotho

Ali¹,

Deininger²

2021

Policy Research Working Papers

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Using Registry Data to Assess Gender-Differentiated Land and Credit Market Effects of Urban Land Policy Reform: Evidence from Lesotho

Ali¹,

Deininger²

2021

Policy Research Working Papers

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“…This paper provides new empirical evidence on impediments to improving legal capacity. We know a lot about the effects of legal capacity and property rights protections-secure rights affect investment in the property (Hornbeck 2010;Galiani and Schargrodsky 2010;Libecap and Lueck 2011) and whether the property itself and other resources are employed in their most productive use (Chari et al 2020;Field 2007;Agyei-Holmes et al 2020;Palsson 2021). With so much evidence that improving property rights can bring large economic benefits, we need a better understanding of why states do not invest in legal capacity.…”

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State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–1949

Palsson¹

2023

J. Econ. Hist.

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External revenues blunt investments in fiscal capacity. But how do external revenues affect investments in legal capacity? In a simple model of state capacity investment, external revenues should be positively correlated with investments in legal capacity. But this implication could flip if fiscal capacity lowers the cost of legal capacity investments. I test the model by looking at Haiti in 1942 when U.S. mobilization caused a negative shock to external revenues. Contrary to the basic model, the shock led to an increase in legal capacity. This puzzle is explained by institutions that tied fiscal and legal capacity investments.

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“…Evidence from Africa is more ambiguous. In Ghana, land titling triggered a modest increase in female ownership of nonagricultural enterprises(Agyei-Holmes et al 2020). In Ethiopia, better land transfer rights were associated with a slightly lower likelihood of migration (de Brauw & Mueller 2012).…”

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Structural Transformation of the Agricultural Sector In Low- and Middle-Income Economies

Deininger

Jin

2022

Annu. Rev. Resour. Econ.

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Movement of labor from agriculture to nonagriculture and the associated increase in farm size through structural transformation are at the core of economic development. We conduct a comprehensive review of the literature exploring the causes and consequences of the transformation. We discuss ( a) the size and determinants for the persisting wage gap between agriculture and nonagriculture, ( b) policy-induced barriers to structural changes, ( c) the role of trade costs and technical change in shaping the nature of structural transformation and comparative advantage of regions, and ( d) how the overall development of an economy affects the relationship between farm size and farm productivity and hence changes competitiveness of different scales of farms. We also identify questions for policy and research and the ways in which new sources and interoperability of data can help answer these questions. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Resource Economics, Volume 14 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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The Effects of Land Title Registration on Tenure Security, Investment and the Allocation of Productive Resources

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Using Registry Data to Assess Gender-Differentiated Land and Credit Market Effects of Urban Land Policy Reform: Evidence from Lesotho

Using Registry Data to Assess Gender-Differentiated Land and Credit Market Effects of Urban Land Policy Reform: Evidence from Lesotho

State Capacity, Property Rights, and External Revenues: Haiti, 1932–1949

Structural Transformation of the Agricultural Sector In Low- and Middle-Income Economies

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