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How property shapes distributional preferences

Fabbri, Marco; Bigoni, Maria - 2021

We study how distributional preferences are affected by a major property rights reform that transformed informal use-rights over land traditionally characterizing rural Beninese villages in a system akin to private ownership. The design combines the randomized control-trial implementation of the...

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Land reforms, status and population growth

Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2014

In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low...

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Agriculture: transition buffer or black hole? : a three-state model of employment dynamics

Voicu, Alexandru - 2002

We analyze the effect of land reform legislation on labor market dynamics in the Romanian economy. We show that the agricultural sector, a source of precarious employment, has become an absorbing state for certain categories of workers who lost their jobs in the nonagricultural sector. A random...

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1930-1943 : agrarian transformation and the famine in Bengal

Paul, Saumik - 2024

of India, witnessed numerous incidents of food shortages. Apart from the supply and demand side factors are typically …

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Land ceiling legislations, land acquisition and de-industrialisation: theory and evidence from the Indian states

Pal, Sarmistha; Chowdhury, Prabal Roy; Saher, Zoya - 2021

. India's land ceiling legislations of 1960s and 1970s imposed a ceiling on maximum land holdings and redistributed above … reduce transactions costs of land acquisition, policies that we claim are also applicable beyond India. …

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Learning about farming: innovation and social networks in a resettled community in Brazil

Comola, Margherita; Inguaggiato, Carla; Mendola, Mariapia - 2021

We study the role of social learning in the diffusion of cash crops in a resettled village economy in northeastern Brazil. We combine detailed geo-coded data on farming plots with dyadic data on social ties among settlers, and we leverage natural exogenous variation in network formation induced...

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Forced off farm? : labor allocation response to land requisition in rural China

Shuang Ma; Mu, Ren - 2017

Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' decisions of labor allocation between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. We argue that,...

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Food for fuel : the effect of the US biofuel mandate on poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2018

RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a …, sugar and meat and dairy, which together provide almost 70% of Indian food calories. Our model predicts that world prices … are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are …

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Can crises affect citizen activism? : evidence from a pandemic

Afridi, Farzana; Basistha, Ahana; Dhillon, Amrita; … - 2024

We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether …

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Posh spice or scary spice? : resource booms, wealth, and human capital across ages

Boone, Christopher; Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E. - 2024

We examine the impact of a six-fold increase in the global vanilla price on smallholder vanilla-farming households in Madagascar. The price increase leads to sizable gains in household assets and significant improvements in adult psychological well-being, cognitive performance, and optimism...

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