Does insecure land tenure deter investment? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial
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چکیده
There is broad agreement among the most prominent observational studies that tenure insecurity deters investment. We present new experimental evidence testing this proposition: a land certification program randomized across villages in Zambia. Our results contradict consensus. Though intervention improved perceptions of security, it had no impact on investment following season. The still zero even after cross-randomized agroforestry extension relaxes financial and technical constraints to relaxing these has direct effect, not enhanced by granting tenure, implying been barrier
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Development Economics
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1872-6089', '0304-3878']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102632