JEL classification

Journal of Economic Literature Classification (10696) Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics (820) Q1 - Agriculture (136) Q15 - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation (51)
Number of items at this level: 51.
Article
  • Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. (2011). If Alonso was right: modeling accessibility and explaining the residential land gradient. Journal of Regional Science, 51(2), 318-338. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9787.2010.00694.x
  • Bandiera, Oriana (2007). Contract duration and investment incentives: evidence from land tenancy agreements. Journal of the European Economic Association, 5(5), 953-986. https://doi.org/10.1162/JEEA.2007.5.5.953
  • Benson, Allison L. (2021). From targeted private benefits to public goods: land, distributive politics and changing political conditions in Colombia. World Development, 146, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105571 picture_as_pdf
  • Besley, Timothy, Burchardi, Konrad B., Ghatak, Maitreesh (2012). Incentives and the De Soto Effect. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127(1), 237-282. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjr056
  • Besley, Timothy, Burgess, Robin (2000). Land reform, poverty reduction and growth: evidence from India. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115(2), 389-430. https://doi.org/10.1162/003355300554809
  • Besley, Timothy, Leight, Jessica, Pande, Rohini, Rao, Vijayendra (2016). Long-run impacts of land regulation: evidence from tenancy reform in India. Journal of Development Economics, 118, 72-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.08.001
  • Burgess, Robin, Donaldson, Dave (2010). Can openness mitigate the effects of weather shocks? Evidence from India's famine era. American Economic Review, 100(2), 449-453. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.100.2.449
  • Cheshire, Paul, Hilber, Christian A. L. (2008). Office space supply restrictions in Britain: the political economy of market revenge. The Economic Journal, 118(529), F185-F221. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02149.x
  • Di Falco, Salvatore, Thomas M, van Rensburg (2008). Making the commons work: conservation and cooperation in Ireland. Land Economics, 84(4), 620-634. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.84.4.620
  • Engel, Stefanie, López, Ramón, Palmer, Charles (2006). Community-industry contracting over natural resource use in a context of weak property rights: the case of Indonesia. Environmental and Resource Economics, 33(1), 73-93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-005-1706-5
  • Eskander, Shaikh, Barbier, Edward B. (2023). Adaptation to natural disasters through the agricultural land rental market: evidence from Bangladesh. Land Economics, 99(1), 141 - 160. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.032421-0031R picture_as_pdf
  • Gatti, Rupert, Goeschl, Timo, Groom, Ben, Swanson, Timothy (2011). The biodiversity bargaining problem. Environmental and Resource Economics, 48(4), 609-628. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9416-z
  • Ghatak, Maitreesh (2000). Contract choice in agriculture with joint moral hazard in effort and risk. Journal of Development Economics, 63(2), 303-326. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3878(00)00116-4
  • Ghatak, Maitreesh, Mookherjee, Dilip (2025). Misallocating misallocation? Annual Review of Economics, 17(1), 511 - 538. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-091624-051237 picture_as_pdf
  • Gibbs, Alex Spike (2019). Lords, tenants and attitudes to manorial officeholding, c.1300-c.1600. Agricultural History Review, 67(2), 155 - 174. picture_as_pdf
  • Heger, Martin Philipp, Zens, Gregor, Bangalore, Mook (2020). Land and poverty: the role of soil fertility and vegetation quality in poverty reduction. Environment and Development Economics, 25(4), 315 - 333. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X20000066 picture_as_pdf
  • Hilber, Christian A. L., Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric (2013). On the origins of land use regulations: theory and evidence from US metro areas. Journal of Urban Economics, 75, 29-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2012.10.002
  • James, Deborah (2011). Tenure reformed: planning for redress or progress in South Africa. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 61(Winter), 19-32. https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2011.610102
  • Lovo, Stefania (2014). Analyzing the welfare-improving potential of land in the former homelands of South Africa. Agricultural Economics, 45(6), 679-692. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12115
  • Lovo, Stefania (2016). Tenure insecurity and investment in soil conservation. Evidence from Malawi. World Development, 78, 219-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.10.023
  • MacKenzie, Ian A., Ohndorf, Markus, Palmer, Charles (2012). Enforcement-proof contracts with moral hazard in precaution: ensuring 'permanence' in carbon sequestration. Oxford Economic Papers, 64(2), 350 - 374. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpr057
  • Palmer, Charles, Silber, Tilmann (2012). Trade-offs between carbon sequestration and rural incomes in the N'hambita Community Carbon Project, Mozambique. Land Use Policy, 29(1), 83-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.05.007
  • Roy, Tirthankar, Swamya, Anand V. (2025). Development policy and legal persistence: evidence from India. Rivista di Storia Economica, 41(1), 95 - 116. https://doi.org/10.1410/116631
  • Stratton, Susan E., Simon, Leo K., Marchiori, Carmen (2008). Promoting groundwater reform in the Guadiana basin. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 90(5), 1343-1349. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8276.2008.01228.x
    • Chapter
  • Besley, Timothy, Ghatak, Maitreesh (2009). Property rights and economic development. In Rodrick, Dani, Rosenzweig, M. R. (Eds.), Handbook of Development Economics (pp. 4525-4595). Elsevier (Firm). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-52944-2.00006-9
    • Report
  • Cheshire, Paul, Hilber, Christian A. L. (2006). Office space supply restrictions in Britain: the political economy of market revenge. (Research papers in environmental and spatial analysis 117). Geography and Environment Department, London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • Working paper
  • Bandiera, Oriana (2002). Land distribution, incentives and the choice of production techniques in Nicaragua. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Bandiera, Oriana (2000). On the structure of tenancy contracts: theory and evidence from 19th century rural Sicily. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Bandiera, Oriana (2001). On the structure of tenancy contracts: theory and evidence from 19th century rural sicily. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain).
  • Banerjee, Abhijit, Ghatak, Maitreesh (2003). Eviction threats and investment incentives. (DEDPS 39). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Besley, Timothy, Burgess, Robin (1998). Land reform, poverty reduction and growth : evidence from India. (Development Economics discussion paper; DEDPS 13 DEDPS 13). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Cheshire, Paul, Dericks, Gerard (2014). 'Iconic design' as deadweight loss: rent acquisition by design in the constrained London office market. (SERC Discussion Papers SERCDP0154). Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC), London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Cheshire, Paul, Hilber, Christian A. L. (2007). Office space supply restrictions in Britain: the political economy of market revenge. (MPRA Paper 5435). Munich University.
  • Claridge, Jordan, Gibbs, Spike (2020). Waifs and strays: property rights in late medieval England. (Economic History Working Papers 313). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Cui, Shunji, Kattumuri, Ruth (2010). Cultivated land conversion in China and the potential for food security and sustainability. (Working Paper 35). Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Duan, Rui (2024). Greater land size but also inequality? English parliamentary enclosure and the gender pay gap in agriculture 1750-1850. (Economic History Student Working Papers 22). Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Engel, Stefanie, Palmer, Charles, Taschini, Luca, Urech, Simon (2012). Cost-effective payments for reducing emissions from deforestation under uncertainty. (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment working paper No. 72). Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
  • Eslava, Francisco, Valencia Caicedo, Felipe (2023). Origins of Latin American inequality. (III Working Paper 95). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.sooq4q28odkc picture_as_pdf
  • Faguet, Jean-Paul, Sanches, Fábio, Villaveces, Marta-Juanita (2016). The paradox of land reform, inequality and local development in Colombia. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Ghatak, Maitreesh, Karaivanov, Alexander (2011). Contractual structure and endogenous matching partnerships. (Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers EOPP 024). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Goodhart, Charles, Hudson, Michael (2018). Could/should jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today? (Discussion papers DP12605). Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain). picture_as_pdf
  • Gottlieb, Charles, Grobovsek, Jan (2015). Communal land and agricultural productivity. (CFM discussion paper series CFM-DP2015-13). Centre For Macroeconomics.
  • Hilber, Christian A. L., Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric (2007). Homeownership and land use controls: a dynamic model with voting and lobbying. (Research papers in environmental and spatial analysis 119). Geography and Environment Department, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Hilber, Christian A. L., Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric (2009). On the origins of land use regulations: theory and evidence from US metro areas. (CEP Discussion Paper 964). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Hilber, Christian A. L., Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric (2006). Owners of developed land versus owners of undeveloped land: why land use is more constrained in the Bay Area than in Pittsburgh. (CEP discussion papers CEPDP0760). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Kondylis, Florence (2005). Agricultural returns and conflict: quasi-experimental evidence from a policy intervention programme in Rwanda. (CEPDP 709). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • MacKenzie, Ian A., Ohndorf, Markus, Palmer, Charles (2010). Enforcement-proof contracts with moral hazard in precaution: ensuring ‘permanence’ in carbon sequestration. (Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment 27). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
  • Palmer, Charles, Ohndorf, Markus, MacKenzie, Ian A. (2009). Life's a breach! Ensuring 'permanence' in forest carbon sinks under incomplete contract enforcement. (Economics working paper series no. 09/113). Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich.
  • Roses, Joan R. (2015). Spanish land reform in the 1930s: economic necessity or political opportunism? (Economic History working paper series 225/2015). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Russo Gaino, Vitória (2024). Indigenous land and colonial institutions: how Aztec and Tupi landownership practices impacted the haciendas of New Spain and engenhos in Brazil. (Economic History Student Working Papers 25). Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Wilson, Kate (2025). Beyond enclosure: the role of estate management in transforming the Corbet Estates in North Shropshire, 1740-1840. (Economic History Student Working Papers 44). Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf