Lanjouw, J.O. and Levy, P.I. (2002) Untitled: a study of formal and informal property rights in urban ecuador. The Economic Journal, 112 (482). pp. 986-1019.
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Abstract
We explore the substitutability of formal and informal property rights using new survey data from Ecuador, where households have both formal and informal claims to urban residential property. We develop a model of property transactions that distinguishes between transferable and non-transferable claims, and show how this distinction affects the interpretation of hedonic price regressions. The unconditional effect of title is to raise properties’ value by 23.5%. However, we also find that informal property rights can substitute effectively for formal property rights, and suggest that titling programmes should be targeted at young disorganised communities if they are to benefit the recipients.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Hedonic price, Households, Property, Transactions, Owners, squatters |
| Author Affiliation: | University of California, Berkeley - Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics; Brookings Institution; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Ms Ishrath Durafsha |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Apr 2014 06:13 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2014 06:13 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00067 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/12961 |
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