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Caste, land and labour market imperfections, and land productivity in rural Nepal
(CLTS Working paper;2011:6, Working paper, 2011)This paper provides new evidence on the caste-related land productivity differential and its explanations in rural Nepal using household plot panel data. Low-caste households are found to have significantly higher land ... -
A comment on changes in the Norwegian Land Consolidation Act
(CLTS Working paper;7/18, Working paper, 2011)The Land Consolidation Act has recently been revised. The changes came into force on 1 July 2006 and 1 January 2007. The main changes in the Act are that the land consolidation court now has formal jurisdiction to handle ... -
Caste discrimination, land reforms and land market performance in Nepal
(CLTS Working Paper;2011:01, Working paper, 2011)The caste system is an intricate part of the institutional structure as well as class formation, political instability and conflicts in Nepal. The most severely discriminated group in the caste system is the Dalits, the ... -
Household welfare effects of low-cost land certification in Ethiopia
(CLTS Working Paper;2011:3, Working paper, 2011)Several studies have shown that the land registration and certification reform in Ethiopia has been implemented at an impressive speed, at a low-cost, and with significant impacts on investment, land productivity, and ... -
The reconstruction of communal property : membership and rights in Limpopo's restitution process
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Livestock and land share contracts in a Hindu Society
(CLTS Working paper;2011:7, Working paper, 2011)This paper examines factors related to the existence of a livestock rental market in western Nepal and assesses whether this is associated with caste differentiation and land rental market participation. This study brings ... -
Collective versus individual property : tenure security and forest tenure reforms in China
(CLTS Working paper;2011:4, Working paper, 2011)This study assesses the determinants of forest land allocation to households in the forest tenure reforms in China in the period 1980-2005 using data from three provinces in Southern China; Fujian, Jiang Xi and Yunnan. ... -
Does land registration and certification reduce land border conflicts?
(CLTS Working paper;2011:5, Working paper, 2011)This paper assesses factors related to local land border conflicts and how low cost land registration and certification has affected land conflicts during and after land registration and certification using data from ... -
Welfare Effects of Market Friendly Land Reforms in Uganda
(CLTS Working Paper;2011:02, Working paper, 2011)This article estimates the poverty reducing impact of the recent land reforms and land transfers in the different land tenure systems of Uganda. Using balanced panel data for 309 households in 2001, 2003, and 2005, models ... -
The role of land certification in reducing gender gaps in productivity in rural Ethiopia
(CLTS Working paper;2012:1, Working paper, 2012)This paper analyses the impact of a low cost and restricted rights land certification program on the productivity of female-headed households. The analysis is based on plot level panel data from the East Gojjam and South ... -
Impact of land certification on tree growing on private plots of rural households : evidence from Ethiopia
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Reverse share-tenancy and marshallian inefficiency : bargaining power of landowners and the sharecroppers’ productivity
(CLTS Working paper;2012:2, Working paper, 2012)Making use of a unique tenant-landlord matched data from the Tigray region of Ethiopia, we are able to show how strategic response of tenants - to varying economic and tenure security status of the landlords - is important ... -
Links between tenure security and food security : evidence from Ethiopia
(CLTS Working paper;2013:2, Working paper, 2013)The study uses five rounds of household panel data from Tigray, Ethiopia, collected in the period 1998–2010 to assess the impacts of a land registration and certification program that aimed to strengthen tenure security ... -
Amazing maize in Malawi : input subsidies, factor productivity and land use intensification
(CLTS Working paper;2013:4, Working paper, 2013)The paper uses three years of household farm plot panel data (2006-2009), covering six districts in central and southern Malawi to assess factor productivity and farming system development under the input subsidy program. ... -
Unbundling land administrative reform : demand for second stage land certification in Ethiopia
(CLTS Working paper;2013:3, Working paper, 2013)Ethiopia has implemented one of the largest, fastest and cheapest land registration and certification reforms in Africa. While there have been evidences of positive impacts of this land reform in terms of increased ... -
Land access and youth livelihood opportunities in Southern Ethiopia
(CLTS Working paper;2013:11, Working paper, 2013)Ethiopia. Access to agricultural land is a constitutional right for rural residents of Ethiopia. We used survey data from the relatively land abundant districts of Oromia Region and from the land scarce districts of Southern ... -
.Lineage and land reforms in Malawi : do matrilinear and patrilinear landholding systems represent a problem for land reforms in Malawi?
(CLTS Working paper;2013:9, Working paper, 2013)This paper is about land tenure relations among the matrilineal and patrilineal cultures in Malawi. Data from the National Agricultural and Livestock Census are used to characterize marriage systems and settlement and ... -
Generosity and social distance in dictator game field experiments with and without a face
(CLTS Working paper;2013:1, Working paper, 2013)Field experiments combining dictator games with stated preference questions are used to elicit within subject and between subject sharing behavior with known family members and anonymous villager. A simple theoretical model ... -
Rights of common and conservation of nature in Skjåk municipality
(CLTS Working paper;2013:10, Working paper, 2013)The goal of this article is to find out how national conservation rules and private ownership works in the management of a large outlying area. The study results are based on a survey among owners/users of Skjåk Bygd Commons ... -
Joint land certification and intra-household decision-making : towards empowerment of wives?
(CLTS Working paper;2013:14, Working paper, 2013)We have used gender-disaggregated household panel data from 2007 and 2012 in combination with dictator games and hawk-dove games to assess the effects of joint land certification of husbands and wives on wives’ involvement ...