author = { Deininger, Klaus Deininger, Klaus AND Jin, Songqing AND Yadav, Vandana },

title = { Does Sharecropping Affect Productivity and Long-Term Investment? Evidence from West Bengal's Tenancy Reforms },

publisher = {The World Bank},

year = {2012},

abstract = {Although transfer of agricultural land ownership through land reform had positive impacts on productivity, investment, and political empowerment in many cases, institutional arrangements in West Bengal - which made tenancy heritable and imposed a prohibition on subleasing - imply that early land reform benefits may not be sustained and gains from this policy remain well below potential. Data from a listing of 96,000 households in 200 villages, complemented by a detailed survey of 1,800 owner-cum tenants, point toward binding policy constraints and large contemporaneous inefficiency of share tenancy that is exacerbated by strong disincentives to investment. A conservative estimate puts the efficiency losses from such arrangements in any period at 25 percent},

address = { Washington, D.C },

url = { http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2 }