Incentives for Joint Land Titling: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Ludovica Cherchi, Markus Goldstein, James Habyarimana, Joao Montalvao, Michael O’Sullivan, Christopher Udry
We report results from a randomized field experiment assessing the effectiveness of conditional price subsidies and information in improving women’s access to formal land tenure. We do so in the context of an ongoing land titling intervention in rural Uganda. We find that the intervention generated high demand for titling, as well as for co-titling. We find that both policy instruments further increased demand for co-titling, but had no effect on overall household demand for titling. Both instruments were therefore relatively more potent when offered in isolation. Our analysis is important given increasing policy attention to land rights institutional reforms and female empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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