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Fenske, James.

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Property rights in rural West Africa: Causes and consequences.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Property rights in rural West Africa: Causes and consequences./
Author:	Fenske, James.
Description:	267 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-07, Section: A, page: 2585.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-07A.
Subject:	Economics, Agricultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3415192
ISBN:	9781124089553

Property rights in rural West Africa: Causes and consequences.
Fenske, James.

Property rights in rural West Africa: Causes and consequences. - 267 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-07, Section: A, page: 2585.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2010.

I look at how geography, trade, and monitoring costs shaped rights over land, labor, and capital in rural West Africa, and at how these institutions constrain agricultural production in the present. I explain the causes and consequences of these institutions using formal models and evidence taken from archives, court records, oral histories, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data, and modern surveys. I use institutional and GIS data to demonstrate that sparse population in Africa explains many of its pre-colonial institutions, including weakly defined land rights, slavery, and polygyny. I apply the model to the Egba of Nigeria and show that their institutions responded to changes in the availability of land over the nineteenth century. I use a model of the defense of property to explain why many Igbo groups in Nigeria curtailed private rights over palm trees during the trade in palm oil. I support this model using evidence from colonial court disputes over palm harvesting. I conduct a meta-analysis of the literature on land rights and investment in Africa, and find that both context and research design have affected published findings. Using multiple data sets from West Africa. I show that land rights consistently impact investment in tree planting and fallow.

ISBN: 9781124089553Subjects--Topical Terms:

626648
Economics, Agricultural.

Property rights in rural West Africa: Causes and consequences.
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