Land Tenancy and Non-contractible Investment in Rural Pakistan
Commitment failure lies at the core of incomplete contract theory, yet its quantitative significance has rarely been assessed. Using detailed plot-level data from rural Pakistan, we find that non-contractible investment is underprovided on tenanted land, even after controlling for the endogeneity of...
Main Authors: | Jacoby, Hanan G., Mansuri, Ghazala |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | EN |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5875 |
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