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Large Scale Institutional Changes : Land Demarcation Within the British Empire

Libecap, Gary D. - 2010

This paper examines the economics of large scale institutional change by studying the adoption of the land demarcation practices within the British Empire during the 17th through 19th Centuries. The advantages of systematic, coordinated demarcation, such as with the rectangular survey, relative...

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The Institutional Costs of Adaptation : Agricultural Drainage in the United States

Edwards, Eric C.; Thurman, Walter N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Tile drainage was first demonstrated in the United States in 1835 as a method to adapt agriculture to excessive water in soils. Subsequently, innovations in coordinated drainage enterprises, engineering, and tile manufacture led to drainage over large portions of the U.S. Midwest and Southeast....

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Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa

McMillan, Margaret S. - 2013

This paper addresses the role of tropical disease in rural demography and land use rights, using data from Onchocerciasis (river blindness) control in Burkina Faso. We combine a new survey of village elders with historical census data for 1975-2006 and geocoded maps of treatment under the...

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The Economics of Tropical Deforestation

Balboni, Clare A.; Berman, Aaron; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Two factors have elevated recent academic and policy interest in tropical deforestation: first, the realization that it … forest loss at a fine spatial resolution across the globe. We then develop a simple benchmark model of deforestation based on … classic models of natural resource extraction. Extending this approach to incorporate features that characterize deforestation …

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The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa

McGuirk, Eoin - 2017

We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and increase conflict over the appropriation of surplus...

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Land Security and Mobility Frictions

Adamopoulos, Tasso; Brandt, Loren; Chen, Chaoran; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Developing countries are characterized by frictions that impede the mobility of workers across occupations and space. We disentangle the role of insecure property rights from other labor mobility frictions for the reallocation of labor from agriculture to non-agriculture and from rural to urban...

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Property Rights without Transfer Rights : A Study of Indian Land Allotment

Dippel, Christian - 2020

Governments sometimes place restrictions on the transferability of property rights to prevent the property's owners from making "mistakes" such as selling their property under value. Such restrictions have often been applied to poor and indigenous communities around the world. The potentially...

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Property Rights, Land Conflict and Tenancy in Brazil

Alston, Lee J. - 2010

-being of potential tenants, now landless peasants; and an expansion of the agricultural frontier through deforestation. Because …

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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. - 2009

We present a conceptual framework to better understand the interaction between settlement and the emergence of de facto property rights on frontiers prior to governments establishing and enforcing de jure property rights. In this framework, potential rents associated with more exclusivity drives...

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Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830 : A New Source for British History

Bogart, Dan - 2008

A new database demonstrates that between 1600 and 1830, Parliament passed thousands of acts restructuring rights to real and equitable estates. These estate acts enabled individuals and families to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange, and improve land previously bound by landholding and inheritance...

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