TY - JOUR
T1 - Land Tenure Security and Investment Incentives
T2 - Puzzling Evidence from Burkina Faso
AU - Platteau, Jean-Philippe
AU - Brasselle, Anne-Sophie
AU - Gaspart, Frédéric
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - On the basis of original data collected in Burkina Faso, the paper seeks to determine whether increased land tenure security has a positive effect on agricultural investments, and land improvements in particular. The test is conducted by carefully controlling for possible endogeneity of tenure security. The paper concludes that, when the effect of investment on tenure security is taken into account, the presumed effect of the latter on the former variable simply disappears.
AB - On the basis of original data collected in Burkina Faso, the paper seeks to determine whether increased land tenure security has a positive effect on agricultural investments, and land improvements in particular. The test is conducted by carefully controlling for possible endogeneity of tenure security. The paper concludes that, when the effect of investment on tenure security is taken into account, the presumed effect of the latter on the former variable simply disappears.
M3 - Article
SN - 1872-6089
VL - 67
SP - 373
EP - 418
JO - Journal of Development Economics
JF - Journal of Development Economics
ER -