Gender, Low-cost Land Certification, and Land Rental Market Participation

Stein Holden (), Klaus Deininger and Hosaena H. Ghebru

No 51575, 2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China from International Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: There is a renewed interest in whether land reforms can contribute to market development and poverty reduction in Africa. This paper assesses effects on the allocative efficiency of the land rental market of the low-cost approach to land registration and certification of restricted property rights that was implemented in Ethiopia from the late 1990s. Four rounds of balanced household panel data collected from 16 villages in northern Ethiopia are used. After controlling for endogeneity of land certification and unobserved household heterogeneity affecting land market participation, it was found that land certification enhanced land rental market participation of female landlord households.

Keywords: Land; Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.51575

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