Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242698 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Centre for Land Tenure Studies Working Paper No. 02/11
Publisher: 
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS), Ås
Abstract: 
This article estimates the poverty reducing impact of the recent land reforms and land transfers in the different land tenure systems of Uganda. Using balanced panel data for 309 households in 2001, 2003, and 2005, models that control for unobserved household heterogeneity and endogeneity of land acquisition and disposition are employed to measure the poverty-reduction effect of land on household expenditure per adult equivalent. Significant poverty reduction effects of increased land access in form of owned, operated and market-accessed land were found. The poverty reduction effect for land accessed through the market was significantly larger than the poverty reduction effect of land accessed through inheritance.
Subjects: 
Land transfers
land policy reforms
unobserved heterogeneity
poverty impacts
JEL: 
O12
Q15
Q24
ISBN: 
978-82-7490-201-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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