Midwest. In the US, land was distributed in small parcels and actively traded. In the Pampas, land was distributed in large … plots and trade was limited because land was a social and political asset as well as commercial. We analyze why this led to …

Victory in the War for Independence brought a vast amount of land within the grasp of the new American nation … Spanish Florida. These lands were initially claimed by several states. Pressure from states without land claims led to these … lands being transferred to the national government. The land so transferred was to be used to pay for the revolution. By …

This paper examines the economics of large scale institutional change by studying the adoption of the land demarcation … strong institutional path dependence that can influence transaction costs, the extent of land markets, and the nature of … resource use. The agricultural land institutions that we examine remain in force today, in some cases over 300 years later. In …

country to country depending on which perquisites were present or absent. In the past twenty years, Brazilian agriculture … evolved from “backward” to an agricultural powerhouse. Its production and total factor productivity more than doubled. Brazil … is in the worlds' top five producers of coffee, soybeans, oranges, beef and corn. Yet, some segments of agriculture lag …

- formal titles. Land conflict will be minimal when governments supply property rights to first possessors. But, governments …, governments may assign de jure rights but be unwilling to enforce the right. This generates potential or actual conflict over land … depending on the violence potentials of de facto and de jure claimants. We examine land settlement and conflict on the frontiers …

Tenancy has been a means for labor to advance their socio-economic condition in agriculture yet in Brazil and Latin … rights in Brazil on the reluctance of landowners to rent because of a fear of expropriation arising from land reform. Since … 1964, the Land Statute in Brazil has targeted rental lands for redistribution. The expropriation of farms, resulting from …

document change over time and differences across villages in local public goods provision, market institutions and land use … open-access to regulated land use. Controlling for province or village fixed effects, we find that villages' variance in … land rights, as opposed to familial or communal rights. Responding to population growth with both improved public services …

funds. We use data from Brazil's federal legislature, which grants each federal legislator a budget to fund public projects …