This research investigates three types of land disputes using a survey of 1050 household from 14 districts spanning across all 7 administrative division of Bangladesh. Moreover, not only we undertake a descriptive evaluation of the survey to understand the severity of land disputes within our sample, we empirically explore the role of land and household factors to understand what makes some land parcels more prone to disputes than others. Furthermore, four interesting findings emerge from our estimations. First, the base line results indicate that approximately 17.7% households had or have disputes in one of their land parcels. This means approximately one in five households in our sample is or was suffering from land dispute(s). Second, approximately half of all land parcels are maintained through un-registered documents, especially for inherited land parcels. This is remarkably low if we compare the state of land registrations to other countries. Third, households with ‘registered’ land parcels on average experience both lower pending disputes and fear of future disputes. On the whole, while we do not attribute causation to our estimates, these correlations motivate further empirical assessments, so that we can improve our understanding of the state of land disputes in Bangladesh.

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孟加拉国土地纠纷令人不安的真相：来自家庭调查的见解

本研究通过对来自孟加拉国所有 7 个行政区的 14 个地区的 1050 户家庭的调查，调查了三种类型的土地纠纷。此外，我们不仅对调查进行了描述性评估以了解样本中土地纠纷的严重程度，我们还通过实证探索土地和家庭因素的作用，以了解是什么使某些地块比其他地块更容易发生纠纷。此外，我们的估计得出了四个有趣的发现。首先，基线结果表明大约 17.7% 的家庭在他们的一个地块上有或有争议。这意味着我们样本中大约五分之一的家庭正在或曾经遭受土地纠纷。其次，大约一半的地块是通过未注册的文件维护的，特别是对于继承的地块。如果我们将土地登记状况与其他国家进行比较，这一数字非常低。第三，拥有“已登记”地块的家庭平均经历了较少的未决争议和对未来争议的恐惧。总的来说，虽然我们没有将因果关系归因于我们的估计，但这些相关性会激发进一步的实证评估，以便我们可以提高对孟加拉国土地纠纷状况的理解。