We evaluate the short-term impact of a pilot land regularization program in Rwanda using a
geographic discontinuity design with spatial fixed effects. Three key findings emerge from …

Previous studies quantifying the relationship between land titles and agricultural productivity
have not explored the role of human capital reallocation. This paper enhances existing …

While scholars long recognized the importance of land markets as a key driver of rural non-
farm development and transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent of their …

This paper examines the impact of gender-progressive reforms to the inheritance law in
India on women's outcomes. Despite stipulating that daughters would have equal shares as …

Using a biometric technology to monitor the attendance of public health workers in India
resulted in a 15 percent increase in staff presence, particularly for lower-level staff. The …

While potentially negative impacts of credit constraints on economic development have long
been discussed conceptually, empirical evidence for Africa remains limited. We use a direct …

Beyond concerns about agricultural productivity growth, issues of land governance have
attracted global interest as demand for land acquisition by outsiders has increased rapidly …

Our purpose is to present and test a typology of land reform theories as a means of
understanding and interrogating the motives behind land reform and to better equip land …

Although benefits from land registration are well documented conceptually, the empirical
literature largely focused on first-time registration rather than the recording of subsequent …

I test the land and labor market effects of a property rights reform that computerized rural
land records in Pakistan, making digitized records and automated transactions accessible to …