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Risk as Impediment to Privatization? The Role of Collective Fields in Extended Agricultural Households

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  • Matthieu Delpierre
  • Catherine Guirkinger
  • Jean-Philippe Platteau

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As in the case of cooperatives, collective fields in extended agricultural households act as an insurance device but entail inefficiencies arising from the incentives to free ride on coworkers’ efforts. Privatization provides good incentives but decreases the level of risk sharing. The classical analysis of this trade-off rules out another major risk-sharing mechanism, namely income transfers. This paper is a first attempt to merge the two insurance mechanisms: collective production, which is plagued by free riding, and income transfers, which are hampered by limited commitment. Privatization of land is shown to interact with incentives to abide by the insurance agreement, so that the trade-off between risk sharing and production may or may not be maintained with income transfers. We show that an increase in the value of the household members’ exit option or a decrease in patience decreases the optimal rate of privatization, while larger households are more likely to privatize land.

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  • Matthieu Delpierre & Catherine Guirkinger & Jean-Philippe Platteau, 2019. "Risk as Impediment to Privatization? The Role of Collective Fields in Extended Agricultural Households," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 67(4), pages 863-905.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:ecdecc:doi:10.1086/700101
    DOI: 10.1086/700101
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    JEL classification:

    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment

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