The Switch to Sharecropping in Medjez-el-bab* *The authors appreciate the many useful comments offered by Lee Alston, Samar Datta, Bruce Herrick, Timur Kuran, and Mustapha Nabli on earlier versions of the paper. The assistance of Samar Datta in the preparation of the questionnaire, the support of the Ministry of Higher Education in collecting the data and the help of Khalifa Ghali in processing the data are gratefully acknowledged. An earlier version of the paper was published in Isaac M. Oferi, ed., Presi