Although recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. Rwanda's nation-wide land tenure regularization programme is of great interest. A discontinuity design with spatial fixed...

This paper empirically examines the emergence and functioning of land markets and their impacts on deforestation in Sumatra, Indonesia. While the evolution of land markets is ex-pected to promote deforestation activities by rural households, we find no sizeable impact, due to two major reasons....

This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result,...

In dieser Studie wird die Zahl und die bewirtschaftete Fläche landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen, deren Kapitalanteile mehrheitlich in der Hand überregional aktiver Investoren sind, sowie die Zahl von Übernahmen durch solche Investoren im Zeitraum 2007 bis 2014 in vier ostdeutschen...

Anknüpfend an eine Untersuchung aus dem Jahr 2015 werden die Zahl und die bewirtschaftete Fläche landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen, deren Kapitalanteile mehrheitlich in der Hand überregional aktiver Investoren sind, sowie die Zahl von Übernahmen durch solche Investoren im Zeitraum 2007 bis...

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking characteristic is a high geographical and temporal mobility. Rural migrants keep going back and forth between origin villages and destination areas. In this paper, we show that...

Private land-use decisions are critical for a broad spectrum of environmental and social outcomes, ranging from water quality and climate change to rural income distribution. I use a large dataset of the land-use decisions of New Zealand landowners to estimate a cross-sectional multinomial logit...

Does ownership status of agricultural land determine farmers' soil use behaviour? Why (not)? We investigate this old question using multiple methods and data. We apply econometric analysis to plot-level data to determine whether planting decisions differ between rented and owned plots. In...

This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data. We study two margins of tenure security, whether a household...

This paper presents hitherto unavailable information about the farm land tenure structure of Afghanistan after more than two decades of civil war and the downfall of the Taliban regime, based on recent countrywide surveys plus other relevant sources. About 1.28 million farms with arable land...