The Deregularization of Land Titles

Sebastian Galiani and Schargrodsky Ernesto ()
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Schargrodsky Ernesto: Ernesto Schargrodsky, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella & CONICET, Av. Figueroa Alcorta 7350, (C1428BCW) Buenos Aires, Argentina

Man and the Economy, 2016, vol. 3, issue 2, 169-188

Abstract: In the last years, several countries implemented policy interventions to entitle urban squatters, encouraged by the results of studies showing large welfare gains from entitlement. We study a natural experiment in the allocation of land titles to very poor families in a suburban area of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Although previous studies on this experiment have found important effects of titling on investment, household structure, educational achievement, and child health, in this article we document that a large fraction of households that went through a situation at which formalization was challenged (death, divorce, sale/purchase), ended up being de-regularized. The legal costs of remaining formal seem too high relative to the value of these parcels and the income of their inhabitants.

Keywords: land titling deregularization; titling systems; cost of titling; natural experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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