Impacts of Land Certification on Tenure Security, Investment, and Land Market Participation: Evidence from Ethiopia

By K. Deininger, D. Ali, Tekie Alemu. Land Economics, 2011

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While early attempts at land titling in Africa were often unsuccessful, factors such as new legislation, low-cost methods, and increasing demand for land have generated renewed interest. A four-period panel allows use of a pipeline and difference-indifferences approach to assess impacts of land registration in Ethiopia. We find that the program increased tenure security, land-related investment, and rental market participation and yielded benefits significantly above the cost of implementation. (JEL O13, Q15)

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. T. Jayne
2. K. Deininger
3. Songqing Jin
4. Stein T. Holden
5. K. Otsuka
6. D. Ali
7. Hui Wang
8. Jeffrey M. Riedinger

In Soil Science

1. T. Jayne
2. K. Deininger
3. Songqing Jin
4. Stein T. Holden
5. D. Ali
6. K. Otsuka
7. Hui Wang
8. Jeffrey M. Riedinger

Citations in the corpus

• Land property rights, agricultural intensification, and deforestation in Indonesia (2018, background): “The empirical literature largely confirms these effects (Banerjee et al., 2002; Goldstein and Udry, 2008; Holden et al., 2009; Deininger et al., 2011; Fenske, 2011; Grimm and Klasen, 2015; Lawry et al., 2016), although in some cases the influence of land titling or more secure property rights was…”
• Land Access, Land Rental and Food Security: Evidence from Kenya (2014, background): “…land (see Jin and Deininger, 2009 and Kimura et al., 2011 for evidence on China; Deininger and Jin, 2008 on Vietnam; Deininger et al., 2008 on India; Deininger et al., 2011, and Gebregziabher and Holden, 2011 on Ethiopia; Migot-Adholla et al., 1994 on Ghana; Holden et al., 2006 on Malawi; Yamano…”
• The roles of land tenure reforms and land markets in the context of population growth and land use intensification in Africa (2014, background): “…rights partly explain this behavior as more recent research in Ethiopia has documented that introduction of land certification has strengthened the feeling of tenure security and farmers’ investment in maintenance of soil conservation technologies (Holden et al., 2009; Deininger et al., 2011).”
• The effects of land markets on resource allocation and agricultural productivity (2017, background): “While land reforms have been studied in a recent empirical literature (Deininger et al., 2008, 2011; Chari et al., 2017), our empirical contribution has the advantage of hindsight using a rich layout of effective policy impact that combines the intensive and extensive margins of variations land…”
• Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda (2011, background): “Second, even lands currently cultivated are characterized by an enormous productivity gap; recent studies show that no African country except South Africa achieves even 25% of the potential (Deininger et al. 2011b).”
• Land documents, tenure security and land rental development: Panel evidence from China (2015, methodology): “That is there is no unobservable factors that are systematically different between control and treatter controlling all other xiand zi . all that is required is that εi is independently and normally distributed with mean zero and variance σε2 (Deininger et al., 2011).”