Published in:CESifo Working Paper Series ; No. 6557
Extent:
1 Online-Ressource (41 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.3014683
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Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 10, 2017 erstellt
Description:
Small farms and fragmented plots are hallmarks of agriculture in less-developed countries, and there is evidence of high returns to land consolidation and reallocation. Complementarities, holdout and asymmetric information mean that private trade will be slow to reallocate land, and imply that market design has the potential to contribute to the development process. Complexity concerns are, however, paramount. We present results from a framed field experiment with Kenyan farmers, comparing the performance of several continuous-time land exchanges. Farmers are able to achieve high degrees of efficiency, and to comprehend and gain from a relatively complicated package exchange