[49] Does land registration and certification boost farm productivity? Evidence from Ethiopia (2015)

1. Research interested

Land titling effect on agricultural productivity in Cambodia

2. Article / Journal

Does land registration and certification boost farm productivity? Evidence from Ethiopia (2015) Mequanint B. Melesse and Erwin Bulte / AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

3. Presenter

: Jungwook Ahn

4. When

2018. 10. 24. (Wen) - 11:30 ~ 13:00

5. Where

Seminar room 406, #102, Graduate School of International Agricultural Technology

6. Main contents

○ We investigate the productivity impacts of the Ethiopian land registration and certification program, employing propensity score matching method in an effort to create a credibel counterfactual.

○ We verify whether the conditional independence assumption and common suppot condition are satisfied by our data.

7. Method-used

○ Propensity Score Matching (PSM)

8. Results

○ Land registration and certification has robust robust positive effects on farm productivity in Ethiopia

○ The assurance effect is the most likely channel via which certification affects agricultural productivity.