Land titling and litigation
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- dc.contributor.author Arruñada, Benito
- dc.contributor.author Fabbri, Marco
- dc.contributor.author Faure, Michael
- dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-11-14T10:10:14Z
- dc.date.available 2024-11-14T10:10:14Z
- dc.date.issued 2021-07-01
- dc.date.modified 2024-11-14T10:08:08Z
- dc.description.abstract We study a large-scale land titling reform implemented as a randomized control-trial to isolate its causal effects on litigation. The reform consisted of demarcating land parcels, registering existing customary rights, and granting additional legal protection to rightholders. We find that, ten years after implementation, the reform doubled the likelihood of households experiencing land-related litigation, but disputes do not escalate into more frequent violent episodes. We suggest that this litigation increase is likely to reflect the complementarity of land titling by registration and by judicial procedures aimed at further clarifying property rights, as the reform registered titles to all parcels but left many of these titles subject to adverse claims. This raised the demand for complementary litigation aimed at perfecting titles for low value parcels which, under the customary system, it was individually optimal to keep unclarified. Consistent with this explanation, we find that the observed increase in litigation takes place among households characterized by low levels of wealth and market integration, who are likely to own land of lower value.
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- dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1787
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- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68686
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1787
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- dc.subject.keyword experimental survey
- dc.subject.keyword informal institutions
- dc.subject.keyword land rights formalization
- dc.subject.keyword land tenure reform
- dc.subject.keyword litigation
- dc.subject.keyword randomized control trial
- dc.subject.keyword Business Economics and Industrial Organization
- dc.title Land titling and litigation
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