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Risk Sharing and Incentives in the Decollectivization of Agriculture

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In many countries, collective agrarian reform agriculture has decollectivized through th e subdivision, or parcellation, of large-scale farms into multiple sm all holdings. While parcellation can provide an escape from a low-eff ort-low-income equilibrium in the collective, it exposes individuals to empirically-significant risk. Analysis of institutional choice in agriculture shows that parcellation is a suboptimal resolution of the incentive-risk-sharing tradeoff. As an alternative, the paper propos es partial decollectivization which combines incentives and risk shar ing in a way consistent with static productivity and long-term agrari an reform goals. Copyright 1987 by Royal Economic Society.

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  • Carter, Michael R, 1987. "Risk Sharing and Incentives in the Decollectivization of Agriculture," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 39(3), pages 577-595, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:oxecpp:v:39:y:1987:i:3:p:577-95
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