Land Rents

The Effects of Potential Land Development on Agricultural Land Prices

We conduct a national-scale analysis of the determinants of agricultural land values. The theoretical basis for the study is a spatial city model with stochastic returns to future land development. The empirical model of agricultural land prices is estimated with a crosssection on approximately three thousand counties in the contiguous US. The results provide evidence that option values associa...

Regional Differences regarding Land Tenancy in Rural Rwanda, with Special Reference to Sharecropping in a Coffee Production Area

This paper examines land tenancy systems and tenant contracts in Rwanda, with respect to socioeconomic contexts. Our research in southern and eastern Rwanda produced data suggesting that land borrowing with fixed rents has been generally practiced, and that rent levels have been low in comparison to expected revenues from field production. In the western areas of coffee production, however, the...

Land Values Continue Rise

T he 1998 Purdue Land Values survey indicates that the value of an acre of average bare Indiana cropland was $2,155 per acre in June 1998, $55 more than the all-time peak reached in 1981. This is an increase of $158 per acre, or approximately 8 percent, over the value reported in 1997. In each of the past five years, annual increases in the value of this land have ranged from about $100 to over...

Is There Profit in Reforming the Poor? The English Poor Law 1830-1842

The first great debate on the effects of welfare on the poor was in England in the years 1795-1834, when the Old Poor Law was criticized by Malthus and his followers as encouraging sloth and taxing industry. The English poor had a legal right to subsistence, and by the early nineteenth century about 10% of the population was in receipt of some public relief. After 1834 a new Poor Law regime was...

Economic History Association Land Rents and Agricultural Productivity : The Paris Basin , 1450 - 1789

Agricultural intensification escalates future conservation costs.

The supposition that agricultural intensification results in land sparing for conservation has become central to policy formulations across the tropics. However, underlying assumptions remain uncertain and have been little explored in the context of conservation incentive schemes such as policies for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, conservation, sustainable managem...