Moura, Mauricio Jose Serpa Barros de; Silveira Bueno, … - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 45 (2013) C, pp. 196-203
This paper investigates the contribution of property rights (land title ownership) to happiness in Brazil by analyzing the household response to an exogenous change in formal ownership status. It uses a quasi-experimental design to analyze a unique dataset based on Papel Passado, a Brazilian...