Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal

作者: Abhijit V. Banerjee , Paul J. Gertler , Maitreesh Ghatak

DOI: 10.1086/338744

关键词: EmpowermentLeasehold estateLabour economicsAgricultural productivityBargaining powerProductivityState (polity)EconomicsSecurity of tenureAgriculture

摘要: The paper analyzes the effect of agricultural tenancy laws offering security tenure to tenants and regulating share output that is paid as rent on farm productivity. Theoretically, net impact reform shown be a combination two effects: bargaining power effect. Analysis evidence how contracts productivity changed after program was implemented in Indian state West Bengal late 1970s suggests had positive there.

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