Know your rights! A field experiment on legal knowledge, property rights, and investment in Kenya

Adam Aberra and Matthieu Chemin

The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2025, vol. 41, issue 1, 348-378

Abstract: Knowledge of the laws is needed for them to have an impact. In this article, we test the effects of disseminating legal knowledge, carefully designed to the particular circumstances of small-scale farmers living with uncertain property rights on their land. We find that greater legal knowledge increases the security of property rights and investment on the land (JEL K4, O1).

Date: 2025
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