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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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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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Population aging in India : facts, issues, and options

Agarwal, Arunika; Lubet, Alyssa; Mitgang, Elizabeth; … - 2016

India, one of the world's two population superpowers, is undergoing unprecedented demographic changes. Increasing … context, scope, and magnitude of India's demographic changes. It then details the major challenges these shifts pose in the … presents an overview of India's recent and ongoing initiatives to adapt to population aging and provide support to older adults …

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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature

Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023

We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...

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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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Property rights and gender bias : evidence from land reform in West Bengal

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2016

While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival...

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The colonial legacy in India : how persistent are the effects of historical institutions?

Lakshmi Iyer; Weir, Coleson - 2024

Using updated data, we analyze the long-run effects of two British colonial institutions established in India. Iyer …

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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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