Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: The Theory and Practice of Reverse Share Tenancy

经济学博士论文研究：反向股份租赁的理论与实践

• 批准号: 0350713
• 负责人: Christopher Barrett
• 金额: $ 1.77万
• 依托单位: Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-03-15 至 2005-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0350713&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Economics; Theory

The aim of this project is to collect and analyze field data regarding land tenancy contracts in rural Madagascar in order to test hypotheses emerging from new theoretical insights on sharecropping contracts in poor communities. In Madagascar and other low-income countries, landlords party to sharecropping agreements are often poorer than their sharecropper tenants, a phenomenon referred to as "reverse share tenancy" in a small, purely empirical literature on such phenomena in the developing world. Even though many studies have been conducted on sharecropping, the few published references there are on reverse share tenancy are purely of a descriptive nature and do not offer a sound theoretical framework to explain why such contracts emerge at all. This research project aims to confront a few theoretical explanations we have recently developed for reverse share tenancy with field data in order to determine which posited mechanisms best explain the existence of reverse share tenancy in Madagascar.This grant would finance a survey of 400 randomly selected households from five provinces in rural Madagascar that have a high density of share tenancy. It will use standard cluster sampling techniques, with oversampling of households suspected of entering sharecropping agreements. For each household, individual-, household- and plot-specific variables will be collected along with data on inputs, landlord supervision, cost- and output-sharing, contract choice and conditions. The field data will then be used to estimate microeconometric models that would first test the hypotheses derived from the theoretical models and then discriminate between competing explanations using a likelihood-based test for non-nested hypotheses.Broader ImpactsSharecropping is pervasive throughout the world. A much clearer understanding of reverse share tenancy would emerge from this research that could then be used to guide economic policy, especially in countries like Madagascar where sharecropping remains banned and property rights in land are often insecure. A better understanding of this sharecropping is needed to inform land policies intended to increase the welfare of poor rural households. Moreover, by explaining sharecropping in a way that accommodates reverse tenancy, this work will contribute more broadly to the longstanding, important literature on agrarian contracts.

该项目的目的是收集和分析关于马达加斯加农村土地租赁合同的实地数据，以检验从关于贫困社区分成制合同的新理论见解中产生的假设。 在马达加斯加和其他低收入国家，参加分成制协议的地主往往比其分成制租户更穷，在关于发展中国家这种现象的少量纯经验性文献中，这种现象被称为“反向份额租赁”。 尽管对分成制进行了许多研究，但关于反向分成租赁的少数出版文献纯粹是描述性的，并没有提供一个合理的理论框架来解释为什么会出现这种合同。该研究项目旨在面对一些理论解释，我们最近开发的反向共享tenancy与现场数据，以确定哪些假设的机制最好地解释存在的反向共享tenancy在Madagasca.This赠款将资助400个随机选择的家庭的调查，从五个省在马达加斯加农村，有一个高密度的共享tenancy。它将使用标准的整群抽样技术，对涉嫌签订分成协议的家庭进行过度抽样。对于每个家庭，将沿着收集个人、家庭和地块的具体变量以及关于投入、房东监督、成本和产出分担、合同选择和条件的数据。 现场数据将被用来估计微观计量经济学模型，首先测试的假设来自理论模型，然后区分竞争之间的解释使用基于似然性的测试非嵌套hypothesis.Broader的影响佃农是普遍的在世界各地。 这项研究将使人们对反向分享租赁有更清晰的理解，然后可以用来指导经济政策，特别是在马达加斯加这样的国家，那里的分成制仍然被禁止，土地产权往往不安全。需要更好地了解这种分成制，以便为旨在增加农村贫困家庭福利的土地政策提供信息。此外，通过解释佃农的方式，容纳反向租赁，这项工作将有助于更广泛的长期存在，重要的文献农业合同。