Abstract This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation. We combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data from Vietnam. We study two margins of tenure security, whether a household has any land title (extensive) and the share of a household’s land held in title (intensive). Using a household-fixed effects model, we find the increases in crop production and land investment associated with holding land title are driven by the intensive margin. We then aggregate the survey data to the commune-level and find evidence that marginal increases in extensive tenure (share of households with any land title) increase deforestation holding constant the average intensive tenure (average share of land held in tenure among those with land title). We find some evidence that increasing the intensive margin of tenure (holding constant the extensive tenure) decreases deforestation. These results present a more nuanced view of the tenure-deforestation relationship than is prevalent in the existing literature.

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土地权、农业生产力和森林砍伐

摘要 本文研究了小农农业的土地使用权与森林砍伐之间的关系。我们将关于森林砍伐的高分辨率卫星数据与来自越南的富裕家庭和公社级别的半年面板数据相结合。我们研究保有权保障的两个边际，一个家庭是否拥有任何土地所有权（广泛的）和一个家庭拥有所有权的土地份额（密集）。使用家庭固定效应模型，我们发现与持有土地所有权相关的作物产量和土地投资的增加是由集约边际驱动的。然后，我们将调查数据汇总到公社级别，并发现有证据表明粗放权（拥有任何土地所有权的家庭所占的比例）的边际增加会增加森林砍伐，同时保持平均集约权（拥有土地所有权的家庭中平均持有土地的份额）不变）。我们发现了一些证据表明增加使用权的集约边际（保持广泛使用权不变）会减少森林砍伐。与现有文献中普遍存在的情况相比，这些结果对土地使用权与森林砍伐的关系提出了更细致入微的观点。