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Rental markets, gender, and land certificates: Evidence from Vietnam

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  • Luciano Ayala Cantu
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The way property rights affect land rental market behaviour is one of the key issues in development economics. In this paper we show the relationship between land use certificates and the compensation landlords receive when they lease out land to their relatives. We find that female-headed households who rent out land to their relatives are less likely to receive a payment (monetary or in-kind), unless they possess a title for the land leased. A regional decomposition of our results shows that this effect is more predominant in the North of Vietnam.

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  • Luciano Ayala Cantu & Bruno Morando, 2018. "Rental markets, gender, and land certificates: Evidence from Vietnam," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2018-96, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    Keywords

    Land use; Land titling; Gender;
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    JEL classification:

    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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