Land Use Rights and Productivity: Insights from a 2006 Rural Household Survey

Newman, Carol and Tarp, Finn and Van den Broeck, Katleen and Quang, Chu Tien (2008): Land Use Rights and Productivity: Insights from a 2006 Rural Household Survey. Published in: Vietnam Economic Management Review , Vol. 2, No. 3 (2008): pp. 66-71.

Abstract

The aim of this article is the provide an overview of the distribution of land use (property) rights in 12 provinces in Vietnam and the productivity effect on plot level and whole farm rice growing . We show that land titles are indeed important. Only exclusively held titles have the expected positive effects and the positive effects on yields is fund in male households.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Vietnam, Rice, Land use, productivity
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D2 - Production and Organizations > D23 - Organizational Behavior ; Transaction Costs ; Property Rights; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O5 - Economywide Country Studies > O53 - Asia including Middle East; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q1 - Agriculture > Q12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets

References

Newman, Carol, Tarp Finn, Van den Broeck Katleen, 2007 " The effect of land Title on Rice Production in Vietnam", October Mimeo.

Vietnam's Access to Resoursces Household Survey 2007 www.ciem.org.vn/home/en/upload/info/attach/1199442575609_chartiricts_of_the_Vietnamse_Rural_Economy.pdf