Property rights and the political organization of agriculture

By J. Conning, James A. Robinson. 2007

114 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. K. Deininger
2. Songqing Jin
3. G. Feder
4. D. Byerlee
5. Maitreesh Ghatak
6. Sanchari Roy
7. C. Norman
8. T. Jayne

In Soil Science

1. K. Deininger
2. Songqing Jin
3. G. Feder
4. D. Byerlee
5. Sanchari Roy
6. Maitreesh Ghatak
7. C. Norman
8. T. Jayne

Citations in the corpus

• Land Rental Markets in the Process of Rural Structural Transformation: Productivity and Equity Impacts in China (2008, background): “l A l f = is subject to decreasing return to scale in land and labor ( Conning and Robinson 2005 ).”
• Land reform and agricultural productivity in India: a review of the evidence (2007, background): “In a recent contribution, Conning and Robinson (2007) show that, despite having been designed to protect tenant rights, tenancy reforms that guaranteed security of tenure and stipulated rent actually ended up reducing the extent of reported tenancy in India.13 Such a decline in the share of…”
• Land Reforms, Poverty Reduction, and Economic Growth: Evidence from India (2008, unknown): “…reducing local communities’ willingness and ability to provide public goods that benefit all inhabitants (Cardenas 2003); and a link between inequality and destructive tensions and social strife that can directly and indirectly undermine the basis for economic growth (Conning and Robinson 2007).”
• Land Registration, Governance, and Development : Evidence and Implications for Policy (2009, background): “The impacts of different institutional structures related to land rights and their interactions with the distribution of power, as well as overall productivity in society, have been discussed extensively in the literature (Binswanger, Deininger, and Feder 1995; Conning and Robinson 2007).”
• The Rise of Large Farms in Land Abundant Countries: Do They Have a Future? (2011, background): “Instead a monopoly on land was combined with other policy distortions to deprive local populations of opportunities and drive down wages (Binswanger et al. 1995), with far-reaching and long-lasting negative effects (Baland and Robinson 2008, Conning and Robinson 2007, Nugent and Robinson 2002).”
• Inequality, Democracy, and Institutions: A Critical Review of Recent Research (2010, unknown): “Conning and Robinson (2007) have theoretically investigated the political determinants of land tenancy arguing, that, under higher land inequality, the advantage for landowners of a shorter tenancy is greater, given the risk that prospective political and agrarian reforms could transfer land…”
• Rule of Law and the Resource Curse: Abundance Versus Intensity (2009, background): “Conning and Robinson (2007) show how ambiguous property rights to natural resources (agricultural land in their model) and anticipated or actual conflicts over their distribution can lead to inefficient outcomes.”