Efficiency and productivity differential effects of land certification program in Ethiopia: Quasi-experimental evidence from Tigray

Hosaena Ghebru Hagos and Stein Holden ()

No 64, ESSP working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Taking advantage of a unique quasi-experi-mental survey design, this study analyzes the productivity impacts of the Ethiopian land certification program by identify-ing how the investment effects (technological gains) would measure up against the benefits from any improvements in input use intensity (technical efficiency). For this purpose, we adopted a data envelopment analysis-based Malmquist-type productivity index to decompose productivity differences into (1) within-group farm efficiency differences, reflecting the technical efficiency effect, and (2) differences in the group production frontier, reflecting the long-term investment (technological) effects. The results show that farms without a land use certificate are, on aggregate, less productive than those with formalized use rights.

Keywords: Land rights; Land ownership; productivity; land certification; data envelopment analysis; Malmquist index; quasi experimental design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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