Land Rights and Economic Development: Evidence from Vietnam

By Quy-Toan Do, Lakshmi Shankar Iyer. 2003

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The authors examine the impact of land reform in Vietnam which gives households the power to exchange, transfer, lease, inherit, and mortgage their land-use rights. The authors expect this change to increase the incentives as well as the ability to undertake long-term investments on the part of households. Their difference-in-differences estimation strategy takes advantage of the variation across provinces in the issuance of land-use certificates needed to enforce these rights. The results indicate that the additional land rights led to significant increases in the share of total area devoted to multi-year crops, as well as some increase in irrigation investment. These effects are stronger in areas that felt the impact of the land reform earlier.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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Citations in the corpus

Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam (2013, unknown): “Land without LURCs is known to be less valuable, as it can easily be expropriated by local authorities (Kim, 2004; Do and Iyer, 2003).”
Growth Theory through the Lens of Development Economics (2004, unknown): “Do and Iyer (2003) find that a land reform which gave farmers the right to sell, transfer or inherit their land usage rights also increased agricultural investment, in particular the planting of multi-year crops (such as coffee).”
A quantile regression decomposition of urban–rural inequality in Vietnam (2007, unknown): “Dollar and Litvak (1998) give a comprehensive description of Vietnam’s economic reforms through the period covered by the first Vietnam Living Standards Survey, and Do and Iyer (2003) provide a detailed description of the land reforms that helped to produce the strong output response in agriculture.”
Land Sales and Rental Markets in Transition: Evidence from Rural Vietnam (2003, unknown): “…associated, at the community level, with higher levels in the share of total area devoted to perennials and some increase in irrigation investment (Do and Iyer, 2002).1 Partly as a consequence, Vietnam has achieved tremendous increases in output and transformed itself from a net importer of rice…”
Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam (2017, background): “…land, having an LURC makes it easier for the firm to move, because the firm can sell or trade its certificate if it decides to relocate to another province, whereas land without an LURC can easily be expropriated by local authorities (Do and Iyer, 2003; Kim, 2004), making it harder to sell.”