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Trial Status on_going completed
Last Published August 02, 2017 11:21 AM November 10, 2023 06:04 PM
Study Withdrawn No
Intervention Completion Date January 01, 2017
Data Collection Complete Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) 244
Was attrition correlated with treatment status? No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations 2809
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms 60 control, 61 agroforestry, 59 land tenure, 64 both
Public Data URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102632
Is there a restricted access data set available on request? Yes
Restricted Data Contact [email protected]
Program Files Yes
Program Files URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102632
Data Collection Completion Date August 10, 2017
Is data available for public use? Yes
Keyword(s) Agriculture, Environment And Energy, Governance Agriculture, Environment And Energy, Governance
Building on Existing Work No
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Papers

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Paper Abstract There is broad agreement among the most prominent observational studies that tenure insecurity deters investment. We present new experimental evidence testing this proposition: a land certification program randomized across villages in Zambia. Our results contradict the consensus. Though the intervention improved perceptions of tenure security, it had no impact on investment in the following season. The impact is still zero even after a cross-randomized agroforestry extension relaxes financial and technical constraints to agroforestry investment. Though relaxing these constraints has a direct effect, it is not enhanced by granting land tenure, implying tenure insecurity had not been a barrier to investment.
Paper Citation Heather Huntington, Ajay Shenoy, Does insecure land tenure deter investment? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial, Journal of Development Economics, Volume 150, 2021, 102632, ISSN 0304-3878, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102632.
Paper URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102632
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