The Distributive Effects of Land Titleon Labor Supply: Evidence From Brazil

Mauricio Moura, Caio Piza and Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Marcos Poplawski-Ribeiro

No 2011/131, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This paper studies the effects of property-titling on labor supply. The role of legal ownership security is isolated by comparing the effect that being part of, or excluded from, a land title program in a unique quasi-experiment in two similar communities in the Brazilian city of Osasco. Our main innovation is the estimation of the distributive impact of land title on hours worked via the quantile regression methodology and the weighting estimator of Firpo (2007). The estimates suggest that the impact of land-titling on labor supply is heterogeneous and greater for those households with fewer hours worked before the program.

Keywords: WP; land title; labor market; land-titling; labor supply; quantile regression; propensity score; point estimate; treatment effect method; mean estimation analysis; child labor; estimation result; durable goods; difference-in-difference estimator; descriptive statistics; Personal income; Labor markets; Informal employment; Africa; Asia and Pacific (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42
Date: 2011-06-01
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