The Dynamics of Land Titling Regularization and Market Development

Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky

No wp-2011-088, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We study the effects of titles on parcel valuation and urban land market development (real estate transfers, rentals, and mortgages), and the dynamics of deregularization by exploiting a natural experiment in the allocation of land titles to very poor families in a suburban area of Buenos Aires, Argentina. This natural experiment has been previously exploited to study effects of land titling on child health (Galiani and Schargrodsky 2004), on the formation of beliefs (Di Tella et al.

Keywords: Deregulation; Land reform; Land tenure; Decision making (Public administration); Right of property (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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