Property Rights for the Poor: Effects of Land Titling

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Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam (2017, background): “It is a well-known fact that government corruption is higher in poor countries than rich countries.”
Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums (2014, background): “As Field (2007) and Galiani and Schargrodsky 2010) suggest, land titling programs play an essential role in re- ucing the costs involved in protecting people’s land.”
Industrial land development in urban villages in China: A property rights perspective (2014, background): “The change of land property rights affects land development and economic performance (Besley, 1995; Field, 2005; Galiani, 2010; Goldstein & Udry, 2008).”
Cities in Developing Countries: Fueled by Rural–Urban Migration, Lacking in Tenure Security, and Short of Affordable Housing (2015, background): “Galiani and Schargrodsky (2010), again using a natural experiment involving random allocation of titles, find a similar effect of titling on dwelling quality in Argentina, presumably a reflection of higher investment.”
Credit Constraints, Job Mobility, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Property Reform in China (2012, neutral): “yijt = g(α1Treati ∗ Postt + α2Treati ∗ Postt ∗∆qjt + α3Postt ∗∆qjt + α4Postt + α5xijt + γi + ijt) (21)”