The Informal City
This paper proposes a theory of urban land use with endogenous property rights. Socially heterogeneous households compete for where to live in the city and choose the type of property rights they purchase from a land administration which collects f...
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okr-10986-299352021-06-08T14:42:46Z The Informal City Selod, Harris Tobin, Lara LAND MARKETS LAND USE PROPERTY RIGHTS LAND ADMINISTRATION TENURE SECURITY MULTIPLE SALES URBAN LAND USE INEQUITY This paper proposes a theory of urban land use with endogenous property rights. Socially heterogeneous households compete for where to live in the city and choose the type of property rights they purchase from a land administration which collects fees in inequitable ways. The model generates predictions regarding sorting and spatial patterns of informality consistent with developing country cities. It also highlights non-trivial effects of land administration reforms in the presence of pecuniary externalities, possibly explaining why elites may have an interest in maintaining inequitable land administrations that insulate them from competition for land from the rest of the population. 2018-06-27T21:54:09Z 2018-06-27T21:54:09Z 2018-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/393141529516276247/The-informal-city http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29935 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8482 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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LAND MARKETS LAND USE PROPERTY RIGHTS LAND ADMINISTRATION TENURE SECURITY MULTIPLE SALES URBAN LAND USE INEQUITY Selod, Harris Tobin, Lara The Informal City |
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This paper proposes a theory of urban
land use with endogenous property rights. Socially
heterogeneous households compete for where to live in the
city and choose the type of property rights they purchase
from a land administration which collects fees in
inequitable ways. The model generates predictions regarding
sorting and spatial patterns of informality consistent with
developing country cities. It also highlights non-trivial
effects of land administration reforms in the presence of
pecuniary externalities, possibly explaining why elites may
have an interest in maintaining inequitable land
administrations that insulate them from competition for land
from the rest of the population. |
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Working Paper |
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Selod, Harris Tobin, Lara |
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Selod, Harris Tobin, Lara |
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Selod, Harris |
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The Informal City |
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The Informal City |
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The Informal City |
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The Informal City |
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The Informal City |
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informal city |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2018 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/393141529516276247/The-informal-city http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29935 |
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