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Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestation in Vietnam

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  • Ryan Abman
  • Conor Carney

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This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Vietnam. We combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data. We study two margins of tenure security, whether a household has any land title (extensive) and the share of a household's land held in title (intensive). Using a household-fixed effects model, we find the increases in crop production and land investment associated with holding land title are driven by the intensive margin.

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  • Ryan Abman & Conor Carney, 2018. "Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestation in Vietnam," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2018-88, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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