The Formation of Beliefs: Evidence from the Allocation of Land Titles to Squatters

By R. Tella, Sebastian Galiant, Ernesto Schargrodsky. 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science

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Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters (2015, result): “Our finding that people’s beliefs changed as a result of their experience is similar to that of Di Tella et al. (2007) who find that people who benefited from land reform developed more materialist and individualist beliefs than others.”
Growing through Cities in Developing Countries (2014, positive): “Recent work points instead to increases in labor supply (Field 2007) and to the adoption of more middle-class values and attitudes (Di Tella, Galliani, and Schargrodsky 2007).”
Unbundling the Relationship between Authoritarian Legislatures and Political Risk (2014, neutral): “42 Di Tella et al. 2007.”
ENERGY CONSERVATION “NUDGES” AND ENVIRONMENTALIST IDEOLOGY: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY FIELD EXPERIMENT (2010, neutral): “Our focus on ideology, an unobservable in previous studies, distinguishes our work from other research (e.g. Allcott 2011; Ayres et al. 2009).”
Growing up in a Recession (2014, positive): “This literature has studied various determinants, including the relevance of property rights (Di Tella et al., 2007)10 and crime (Di Tella et al., 2007) on beliefs, the relationship between dependency on oil and individualism (Di Tella et al., 2010), the importance of political regimes (Alesina and…”
Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam (2013, positive): “…piece, convincing evidence has been found that allocation of land rights increases household investment (Galiani and Schargrodsky, 2010), belief in the power and fairness of the market (Di Tella, Galiani, and Schargrodsky, 2007), and the number of hours dedicated to productive work (Field, 2007).”
The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization Among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka (2012, positive): “Consistent with the effect of formal land titling reported in Di Tella et al (2007), we also find impacts in terms of attitudes: firms that formalize are more likely to trust local government and agree that paying taxes is a civic duty, but are also more likely to agree that small businesses are…”
Mindful Economics: The Production, Consumption, and Value of Beliefs (2016, methodology): “Di Tella et al. (2015) actually elicit the beliefs generated in the process using a variant of the “trust game.”