Tenure, Agricultural Investment, and Productivity in the Customary Tenure Sector of Malawi*

By F. Place, K. Otsuka. Economic development and cultural change, 2001

126 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. D. Ali
2. Stefania Lovo
3. K. Deininger
4. T. Yamano
5. E. Chirwa
6. T. Jayne
7. Songqing Jin
8. A. Quisumbing

In Global and Planetary Change

1. K. Deininger
2. D. Ali
3. Stefania Lovo
4. T. Yamano
5. E. Chirwa
6. B. K. Jack
7. A. Quisumbing

In Soil Science

1. D. Ali
2. K. Deininger
3. T. Yamano
4. Stefania Lovo
5. E. Chirwa
6. Songqing Jin
7. A. Quisumbing
8. G. Schoneveld

Citations in the corpus

• Do overlapping property rights reduce agricultural investment ? evidence from Uganda (2007, unknown): “…of the threat of expropriation (Jacoby et al. 2002), composite measures of self-assessed transfer rights (Blarel 1994, Matlon 1994, Besley 1995, Place and MigotAdholla 1998, Place and Otsuka 2001), or a combination of the two (Ayalew et al. 2005, Deininger and Jin 2006, Deininger et al. 2006).”
• Securing Private Property: Formal versus Informal Institutions (2011, background): “However, other scholars do not find any benefit from government land titling (Atwood 1990; Kimuyu 1994; Place and Migot-Adholla 1998; Firmin-Sellers and Sellers 1999; Place and Otsuka 2001; Brasselle, 6 Another possibility is to rely on private mechanisms.”
• Legal Knowledge and Economic Development: The Case of Land Rights in Uganda (2006, background): “One implication is that, even though transfer rights and tenure security can be synonymous, as is implicitly assumed in a large number of studies (Blarel 1994, Matlon 1994, Place and Migot-Adholla 1998, Place and Otsuka 2001), this is by no means necessary.”
• Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Soil Conservation. Evidence from Malawi (2013, background): “Unfortunately, the dataset does not allow inferring from who the plot was inherited, as available in Place and Otsuka (2001b) and Lunduka (2009).”
• Adoption of fertiliser and hybrid seeds by smallholder maize farmers in Southern Malawi (2005, background): “Although Place & Otsuka (2001) find that some traditional land tenure systems provide security, are Fertiliser adoption Hybrid seeds adoption Marginal effectsVariables Coefficient t-ratio Coefficient t-ratio age 0.0028 0.42 20.0143b 22.00 20.0031 female 20.1461 20.58 0.0963 0.37 0.0034 education…”