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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: de Janvry, Alain; Emerick, Kyle; Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco; Sadoulet, Elisabeth
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Tufts University; University of Toronto
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20130853
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 3125-3149
• 关键词: PROPERTY-RIGHTS; PRODUCTIVITY; reforms

摘要

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 land allocations. Using the rollout of the Mexican land certification program from 1993 to 2006, we find that households obtaining certificates were subsequently 28 percent more likely to have a migrant member. We also show that even though land certification induced migration, it had little effect on cultivated area due to consolidation of farm units.