The Distributive Effects of Land Titleon Labor Supply: Evidence From Brazil

ByMauricio Moura, Caio Piza, Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro

June 1, 2011

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Summary

This paper studies the effects of property-titling on labor supply. The role of legal ownership security is isolated by comparing the effect that being part of, or excluded from, a land title program in a unique quasi-experiment in two similar communities in the Brazilian city of Osasco. Our main innovation is the estimation of the distributive impact of land title on hours worked via the quantile regression methodology and the weighting estimator of Firpo (2007). The estimates suggest that the impact of land-titling on labor supply is heterogeneous and greater for those households with fewer hours worked before the program.

Subject: Currencies, Informal employment, Labor, Labor markets, Labor supply, National accounts, Personal income

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, child labor, descriptive statistics, difference-in-difference estimator, durable goods, estimation result, Informal employment, labor market, Labor markets, labor supply, land title, land-titling, mean estimation analysis, Personal income, point estimate, propensity score, quantile regression, treatment effect method, WP

Pages:
42
Volume:
2011
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781455259366.001
Issue:
131
Series:
Working Paper No. 2011/131
Stock No:
WPIEA2011131
ISBN:
9781455259366
ISSN:
1018-5941

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