Massachusetts slowly shrunk by 90% for exogenous reasons between 1963 and 1990. While water supply decreased, land supply increased … outweighed the growth in land supply and other positive effects. A quantitative spatial model used to rationalize these results … allows us to study the aggregate and spatial effects of policies related to migration, land use, trade, roads, and cities. …

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, conditional on village fixed effects, land requisition can be explored as …

destination areas. In this paper, we show that this temporary feature of migration can be linked to land rights insecurity. As … village land ownership remains collective and as land use rights can be periodically reallocated, individual out-migration can …-level management of land and the contractual status of land plots. We use these variations to identify the effect of land rights …

agricultural investments and productivity in areas with landlord-based colonial land tenure systems. Our updated data finds that …

the evolution of taxation structures and local political incentives, and may contain important lessons for Indigenous tax …

natives. Finally, we find that it is unlikely that immigration's effect on agriculture slowed Brazil's structural … studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … informative of developing countries' experience because Brazil in this period was unique among major migrant destinations as a low …

lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs have more constrained access to credit than do men. Testing … the model on data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys in Eswatini, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe, we find land ownership to be … economies would benefit from removing obstacles to women's land tenure and enabling financial institutions to lend against …