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Fetzer, Thiemo and Marden, Samuel (2017) Take what you can : property rights, contestability and conflict. Economic Journal, 127 (601). pp. 757-783. doi:10.1111/ecoj.12487 ISSN 0013-0133.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12487
Abstract
Weak property rights are strongly associated with underdevelopment, low state capacity and civil conflict. In economic models of conflict, outbreaks of violence require a prize that is both valuable and contestable. This article exploits spatial and temporal variation in the availability of land with title that is contestable by private actors to explore the relationship between (in)secure property rights and civil conflict in the Brazilian Amazon. The results suggest that resolving this contestability of title at the local level could eliminate substantively all local land-related violence but might increase conflict in areas where title remained contestable.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory S Agriculture > SD Forestry |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Right of property -- Amazon River Region, Deforestation | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Economic Journal | ||||||
Publisher: | Blackwell | ||||||
ISSN: | 0013-0133 | ||||||
Official Date: | 24 May 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 127 | ||||||
Number: | 601 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 757-783 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/ecoj.12487 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 October 2016 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 May 2019 | ||||||
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