The Effect of Land Rights on Land-related Investments: Heterogenous Responses? Evidence from Niger.
Etienne Le Rossignol
I examine the e ectiveness of individual state-granted land right on increasing inorganic fertilizer adoption in a setting with considerable risk of output loss. The risk of output loss considered is presence of mobile
livestock. Relying on within household variation and on an interaction term I separate the e ect of owning a legal title from the e ect of other
mediating factors linked to both inorganic fertilizer adoption and formalization.
Results show that, presence of mobile livestock, proxied
by the Euclidean distance to the relevant grazing area, is negatively correlated with inorganic fertilizer adoption. Facing the threat induced
by mobile livestock, farmers owning plots with and plots without legal title do not favor substantially the former in inorganic fertilizer adoption
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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