Tenure security and subsistence needs influence the choice between unexploited topsoil and investment in children … investment, while the poor households have lower conservation and human capital investments. We infer that enhanced tenure …

-specific investment is lower on leased plots. This result is robust to the possible effects of asymmetric information in the leasing … market. Greater tenure security also increases land-specific investment on leased plots. Moreover, variation in tenure …

assessed. Using detailed plot-level data from rural Pakistan, we find that non-contractible investment is underprovided on … in investment effort alone cannot explain this inefficiency. Instead, imperfect commitment appears to be the driving … mechanism, since even plots taken on fixed rent contracts where all the rent is paid upfront receive lower investment than owner …

-specific investment is lower on leased plots. This result is robust to the possible effects of asymmetric information in the leasing … market. Greater tenure security also increases land-specific investment on leased plots. Moreover, variation in tenure …

-specific investment is lower on leased plots. This result is robust to the possible effects of asymmetric information in the leasing … market. Greater tenure security also increases land-specific investment on leased plots. Moreover, variation in tenure …

, land-related investment, and rental market participation and yielded benefits significantly above the cost of …