The Price of Empowerment : Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania

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dc.creatorCollin, Matthew
dc.creatorAli, Daniel Ayalew
dc.creatorDercon, Stefan
dc.creatorDeininger, Klaus
dc.creatorSandefur, Justin
dc.creatorZeitlin, Andrew
dc.date2014-06-25T21:50:14Z
dc.date2014-06-25T21:50:14Z
dc.date2014-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:53:20Z
dc.descriptionThis paper reports on a randomized field experiment that uses price incentives to address economic and gender inequality in land tenure formalization. During the 1990s and 2000s, nearly two dozen African countries proposed de jure land reforms extending access to formal, freehold land tenure to millions of poor households. Many of these reforms stalled. Titled land remains the de facto preserve of wealthy households and, within households, men. Beginning in 2010, the study tested whether price instruments alone can generate greater inclusion by offering formal titles to residents of a low-income, unplanned settlement in Dar es Salaam at a range of subsidized prices, as well as additional price incentives to include women as owners or co-owners of household land. Estimated price elasticities of demand confirm that prices -- rather than other implementation failures or features of the titling regime -- are a key obstacle to broader inclusion in the land registry, and that some degree of pro-poor price discrimination is justified even from a narrow budgetary perspective. In terms of gender inequality, the study finds that even small price incentives for female co-titling achieve almost complete gender parity in land ownership with no reduction in demand.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/06/19616394/price-empowerment-experimental-evidence-land-titling-tanzania
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/18770
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-6908
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/412498
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 6908
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectACTUAL COST
dc.subjectAGRICULTURE
dc.subjectALLOCATION
dc.subjectASSETS
dc.subjectAUTONOMY
dc.subjectBENCHMARK
dc.subjectBONDS
dc.subjectCOMPETITIVENESS
dc.subjectCOST OF CAPITAL
dc.subjectDEMAND CURVE
dc.subjectDEMAND ELASTICITY
dc.subjectDEMOCRACY
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT POLICY
dc.subjectDICTATORSHIP
dc.subjectDISCOUNT RATE
dc.subjectDISCOUNTED PRESENT VALUE
dc.subjectECONOMIC HISTORIANS
dc.subjectECONOMIC HISTORY
dc.subjectEXPENDITURE
dc.subjectFIXED COSTS
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD ANALYSIS
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectHOUSING
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectINHERITANCE
dc.subjectINTEREST RATE
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.subjectLAND TENURE
dc.subjectLANDOWNERS
dc.subjectLAWS
dc.subjectLEGISLATION
dc.subjectLOCAL GOVERNMENT
dc.subjectLOTTERIES
dc.titleThe Price of Empowerment : Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania

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