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| Deininger, Klaus W.; Jin, Songqing; Yadav, Vandana. |
| While land reform has been the subject of considerable scholarly debate, most of the analyses have been at the aggregate level and focused on rather short-term effects. We use a listing of more than 90,000 households in some 200 villages in West Bengal to highlight the impact of the state's 1978 land reform program on human capital accumulation and current productivity of land use. While we ascertain a highly significant positive effect on long-term accumulation of human capital, our analysis also suggests that, partly because land that had been received through land reform is still operated under share tenancy arrangements, productivity on such land is significantly lower than the average. The combination of lower productivity of reform land relative to... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6277 |
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| Deininger, Klaus W.; Jin, Songqing; Yadav, Vandana. |
| Land reforms in India were aimed at securing access to land for poor rural households. We use data from West Bengal to highlight the impact of the state’s 1978 land reform program on human capital accumulation within the beneficiary households. The results from the study indicate that reform positively impacted the decision to invest in education. We ascertain a highly significant positive effect on long-term accumulation of human capital, and find that the size of benefit was modest in first generation and much larger for second generation beneficiaries. The second generation also does not have a gender bias, allowing women to catch up in their levels of education. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Human Capital; Impact Evaluation; Land Reforms; International Development. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49969 |
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