This paper uses data from a household survey to estimate changes in land distribution in rural West Bengal between 1967 …-2004 and decompose these into contributions of different factors. There was a substantial drop in land per household and land … reduced division rates of small landowning households while raising those of large landowning households. The land titling …

While early attempts at land titling in Africa were often unsuccessful, factors such as new legislation, low …-cost methods, and increasing demand for land have generated renewed interest. A four-period panel allows use of a pipeline and … difference-indifferences approach to assess impacts of land registration in Ethiopia. We find that the program increased tenure …

In agricultural societies, adjusting land and labor according to changes of labor endowment that result from family …. This paper examines how and how well households in pre-modern Japan reallocated land and labor, using a population register … production factors; land-scarce households tended to acquire or rent-in land and out-migrate their kin members, while land …