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Land Ownership as Insurance and the Market for Land: A Study in Rural Vietnam

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  • Gwendoline Promsopha

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We propose simple empirical insights to analyze the relationship between the value of the safety net embedded in land and households’ decision to sell land. Land sales may differ from other kinds of land transactions such as rental, free loans, and gifts in terms of future capacities to safeguard livelihood. Households well insured through nonland riskcoping mechanisms are expected to make use of sales more frequently than others. We test this hypothesis with 2006 survey data from Vietnam and find that selling households are less vulnerable, better educated, and richer than those that use other transfer types.

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  • Gwendoline Promsopha, 2015. "Land Ownership as Insurance and the Market for Land: A Study in Rural Vietnam," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 91(3), pages 460-478.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:landec:v:91:y:2015:i:3:p:460-478
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    1. Lijing Zhang & Mingyong Hong & Xiaolin Guo & Wenrong Qian, 2022. "How Does Land Rental Affect Agricultural Labor Productivity? An Empirical Study in Rural China," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(5), pages 1-19, April.
    2. Luciano Ayala-cantu & Bruno Morando, 2018. "Rental markets, gender, and land certificates: Evidence from Vietnam," WIDER Working Paper Series 96, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    3. Conor Carney & Ryan Abman, 2018. "Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestation in Vietnam," WIDER Working Paper Series 88, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    4. Haizi Wang & Chaowei Li & Juan Liu & Shibin Zhang, 2019. "Research on Farmers’ Willingness of Land Transfer Behavior Based on Food Security," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-17, April.
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    14. Ali, Daniel Ayalew & Deininger, Klaus & Duponchel, Marguerite, 2017. "New Ways to Assess and Enhance Land Registry Sustainability: Evidence from Rwanda," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 377-394.
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    16. Gwendoline Promsopha, 2017. "Are free land arrangement really free? An exploration into land arrangements made by rural-urban migrants in the Northeast of Thailand," Working Papers hal-01565843, HAL.

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    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements

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