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The social costs of titling land: Evidence from Uganda
World Development ( IF 6.678 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-27 , DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105376
William Gochberg

Why do some African landholders title their land, while others refrain from doing so? Existing explanations for the evolution of property rights focus on the costs of titling and the degree of enforcement by the state. I suggest a complementary explanation, based on the social costs of titling. In much of Africa, titling equates to removing land from customary authority, which governs multiple domains of social and economic life; actions in one domain bring costs in the others. I cast the decision to title as a coordination dilemma among a community of landholders, rather than an individual choice made in isolation. I test this theory using original survey and interview data from Uganda. A series of logit and probit estimates of data on titling are consistent with the social costs theory, dependent on model specification. Interview evidence indicates that social costs have a marginal effect on titling decisions; this is further supported with an examination of empirical implications at the country level across Africa using Afrobarometer data. The results indicate the need for more empirical tests to establish the conditions under which social costs have the greatest impact. This paper adds to our understanding of institutional change over time, as well as the persistence of customary authority in Africa.



中文翻译:

土地所有权的社会成本:来自乌干达的证据

为什么有些非洲土地所有者对自己的土地拥有所有权,而另一些非洲人却不这样做呢?关于产权演变的现有解释集中在所有权的成本和国家的执法程度上。基于标题的社会成本,我建议一个补充性的解释。在非洲大部分地区,所有权等同于从习惯权力中剥夺土地,后者管辖着社会和经济生活的多个领域;一个领域的行动会给其他领域带来成本。我决定将所有权的决定视为土地所有者社区之间的协调困境,而不是孤立地做出的个人选择。我使用乌干达的原始调查和访谈数据检验了这一理论。一系列关于所有权的数据的logit和probit估计与社会成本理论(取决于模型规格)相一致。访谈证据表明,社会成本对所有权决定有边际影响;使用非洲晴雨表数据对整个非洲国家层面的经验影响进行检验,进一步证明了这一点。结果表明,需要进行更多的经验检验,以确定社会成本产生最大影响的条件。本文增加了我们对随着时间推移而发生的制度变迁以及非洲习惯权威的持久性的理解。

更新日期:2021-02-28
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