The main objective of this study is to identify the new patterns of land acquisitons in Argentina. However, data on land purchased and sold is not readily available and generating it would take a long and complex effort. On the other hand, circumstantial evidence and the general knowledge of the...

In the last years, several countries implemented policy interventions to entitle urban squatters, encouraged by the results of studies showing large welfare gains from entitlement. We study a natural experiment in the allocation of land titles to very poor families in a suburban area of Buenos...