This seminar will be held every Friday at 10:30 am in room 119 Classroom Office Building unless otherwise noted. The seminar will end @ 11:45 am.  

• December 4 - Dilip Mookherjee, Professor of Economics, Boston University, will present “Productivity Effects of Land Reform: A Study of Disaggregated Farm Data in West Bengal, India.” Paper co-authored with Pranab Bardhan (Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley) and available online here.

   

  Abstract:

  We study the impact of reforms in land property rights on farm productivity in the Indian state of West Bengal spanning 1982--95. Our analysis is distinguished from earlier studies by use of a disaggregated farm panel, controls for farm extension programs administered by local governments, and for endogeneity of program implementation. We find statistically significant effects of tenancy registration on productivity in tenant farms, but larger general equilibrium spillover effects on non-tenant farms. The productivity effects of tenancy reform were overshadowed by farm input services and infrastructure spending by local governments.

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