Moura, Mauricio; Piza, Caio; Poplawski-Ribeiro, Marcos - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This paper studies the effects of property-titling on labor supply. The role of legal ownership security is isolated by comparing the effect that being part of, or excluded from, a land title program in a unique quasi-experiment in two similar communities in the Brazilian city of Osasco. Our...