Arbeitspapier

Determinants of Land Tenure Contracts; Theory and Evidence from Rural India

In this paper we analyze the factors that affect the choice of land tenure contracts in the semi arid tropics of India. We develop a dynamic principal-agent model with one-sided private information to explain the co-existence of wage, rent and share-cropping contracts. We generate empirically testable hypotheses about how multiple contracts can co-exist and we identify household and plot level characteristics that explain such co-existence. Using plot level data from three Indian villages we find that increasing the age of the head of the cultivating household and the value of the plot under cultivation increases the probability that the plot is under tenant cultivation (i.e. cultivated under a share or rent contract).

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 1997-10

Classification
Wirtschaft
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Subject
Principal-agent
Qualitative dependent variable
Share-cropping
Tenurial contracts

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Chaudhuri, Ananish
Maitra, Pushkar
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Rutgers University, Department of Economics
(where)
New Brunswick, NJ
(when)
1997

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Chaudhuri, Ananish
  • Maitra, Pushkar
  • Rutgers University, Department of Economics

Time of origin

  • 1997

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