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Access to land and tenancy practices on Tanah Bengkok: evidence from Java, Indonesia
Kurosaki, Takashi; Paul, Saumik; Witoelar, Firman - 2020
Tanah bengkok (bengkok land) in Java, Indonesia boasts a unique institution where elected village leaders receive usufruct rights to a parcel of land owned by the village, in lieu of salary. Despite its relevance to the political economy of land distribution in Java, unavailability of systematic...
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Land access and poverty among agricultural households in Nigeria
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2024
The issue of land inequality has garnered renewed interest in development literature due to its potential impact on the welfare of smallholder farmers. Poverty reduction is a crucial sustainable development goal, and a clearer understanding of the factors contributing to poverty is essential for...
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When knowledge is an asset : explaining the organizational structure of large law firms
Rebitzer, James B. (contributor);  … - 2006
We study the economics of employment relationships through theoretical and empirical analysis of an unusual set of firms, large law firms. Our point of departure is the "property rights" approach that emphasizes the centrality of ownership's legal rights to control important, non-human assets of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003384904
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Gender discrimination and common property resources
Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - 2015
In an open economy with common property resources at the community level, marriage and migratory decisions crucially depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we present a model that fits the evolution of property...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428170
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Gender discrimination in property rights
Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - 2014
Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...
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Delegation of authority as an optimal (in)complete contract
Roider, Andreas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
The present paper aims to contribute to the literature on the foundations of incomplete contracts by providing conditions under which simple delegation of authority is the solution to the complete-contracting problem of the parties. We consider a hold-up framework where both parties profit from...
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Contracting with private information
Hagedorn, Marcus (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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On the organizational structure of multinational firms : which sourcing mode for which input?
Südekum, Jens; Nowak, Verena Nina; Schwarz, Christian - 2012
Recent studies indicate that firms often outsource standard and simple tasks, while keeping complex and important inputs inside their boundaries. This observation is difficult to reconcile with the property rights approach of the firm, which suggests that important components should be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009539235
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The quantity-quality tradeoff of children in a developing country : identification using Chinese twins
Li, Hongbin (contributor); Zhang, Junsen (contributor);  … - 2007
attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth … effect of family size on children's education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …-quality tradeoff of children in developing countries. -- Quantity-quality tradeoff ; twins ; China …
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Urban-rural consumption inequality in China from 1988 to 2002 : evidence from quantile regression decomposition
Qu, Zhaopeng (contributor); Zhao, Zhong (contributor) - 2008
One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but … and rural households in China from 1988 to 2002. Our results suggest that low quantiles are associated with large … ; consumption ; quantile regression decomposition ; China …
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