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Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador: A Comment

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  • Anders Kjelsrud
  • Andreas Kotsadam
  • Ole Rogeberg

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Montero (2022) explores a discontinuity in a land reform in El Salvador and reports two main findings. First, relative to outside-owned haciendas operated by contract workers, the productivity of worker-owned cooperatives is higher for staple crops and lower for cash-crop. Second, cooperative property rights increase workers' incomes and compress wage distributions. In this comment, we show that the latter result rests on two mistakes: three-quarters of the observations are duplicates and income inequality is calculated over too few workers to be meaningful. When corrected, the data sources and research design provide no credible evidence regarding the causal effects of ownership structure on income levels and inequality.
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  • Anders Kjelsrud & Andreas Kotsadam & Ole Rogeberg, 2023. "Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador: A Comment," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 131(8), pages 2276-2285.
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    1. Guillaume Coqueret, 2023. "Forking paths in financial economics," Papers 2401.08606, arXiv.org.
    2. McWay, Ryan & Braaksma, Matthew, 2025. "The political consequences of resource scarcity: Targeted spending in a water-stressed democracy. A replication study of Mahadevan and Shenoy (Journal of Public Economics, 2023)," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 39(C).
    3. McWay, Ryan & Braaksma, Matthew, 2025. "The Political Consequences of Resource Scarcity: Targeted Spending in a Water-Stressed Democracy. A Replication Study of Mahadevan and Shenoy," I4R Discussion Paper Series 231, The Institute for Replication (I4R).

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