Complete the Incompleteness of Land Reform: Household Level Evidence from West Bengal

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin and Vandana Yadav

No 103966, 2011 Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Abstract: Land reforms were successfully implemented in the state of West Bengal through a special program undertaken in 1978 by the then state government. These reforms brought large amount of land under permanent and inheritable tenancy. We use a survey data of nearly 9000 plots from 2000 households in 142 villages in West Bengal to ascertain that both productivity and long-term investments on such land are significantly lower than the land under ownership. We also find evidence for lower levels of input usage on the tenancy plots as compared to those which are fully owned by the cultivator. Programs to allow land reform beneficiaries to acquire full ownership could thus have significant benefits

Keywords: Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use; Productivity Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.103966

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