Delinking Land Rights from Land Use: Certification and Migration in Mexico

In many developing countries property rights over rural land are maintained through continuous personal use instead of by land titles. We show that removing the link between land use and land rights through the issuance of ownership certificates can result in large-scale adjustments to labor and lan...

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Published in:	The American economic review Vol. 105; no. 10; pp. 3125 - 3149
Main Authors:	de Janvry, Alain, Emerick, Kyle, Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco, Sadoulet, Elisabeth
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nashville American Economic Association 01.10.2015
Subjects:	Agrarian reform Agricultural land Agricultural land use Agriculture Certificates Certification Community Crop economics Crops Datasets Developing countries Economic development Farms Households Labor migration Land economics Land settlement Land titles Land use LDCs Mexico Migrants Migration Ownership Population Property rights Rentals Rural areas Rural communities Rural land use Studies Value added Mexico
ISSN:	0002-8282, 1944-7981
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