Land tenure arrangements in Africa are generally skewed in favour of males. Compared to males, female plot owners face complex sets of constraints and systemic high tenure insecurity which culminate in low yields. In order to obtain better returns, some females rent their plots to males, but risk losing the plots to their tenants. A model has been constructed to explain renting-out decisions of...

Both human activities and climate change have changed landscapes significantly, especially in coastal areas. Sea level rise land subsidence foster tidal floods permanent inundations, thus changing limiting use. Though many countries, including Indonesia, are aware of these phenomena, the legal status this permanently inundated remains unclear. Indonesia refers to legally as obliterated land. Th...

[email protected] www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca fax 416 978-7162 The rapid urbanization process of developing countries in the 1960s and 1970s has intensified pressures on the use of resources at rates that demanded alternative solutions beyond local capacities. For example, the number of jobs that needed to be created to accommodate the unskilled migrants was a task that proved to b...

This thesis seeks to analyze two questions central to the economic welfare of rural households in developing countries: the trade-offs between equity and efficiency induced by hybrid forms of property rights, and the decisions made by households in the process of human capital accumulation, particularly in early childhood. The first two chapters examine the impact of periodic land reallocations...

This paper explores statistically the implications of the shift from communal to individualized tenure on the distribution of land and schooling between sons and daughters in Western Sumatra. The inheritance system is evolving from a strictly matrilineal system to a more egalitarian system in which sons and daughters inherit the type of land which is more intensive in their own work effort. Whi...