@article{Jin:103907,
      recid = {103907},
      author = {Jin, Songqing and Jayne, Thomas S.},
      title = {Impacts of Land Rental Markets on Rural Poverty in Kenya},
      address = {2011},
      number = {321-2016-10655},
      pages = {40},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {This study uses panel data from 1,142 Kenya smallholder  households over four survey periods to examine the  determinants of participation in land rental markets and to  quantify the impact of renting land on households’ crop  income and total income. We find that land rental markets  in Kenya enhance productivity and are equitable. The  results are consistent across different estimation methods  and model specifications. Dynamic panel models were used to  assess the impact of rental participation on households’  crop income and total income.  After controlling for the  endogeneity of rental market participation and the  persistent effects of lagged income, we find that the  decision to rent land increased tenant households’ net crop  (net total) income by 25.1 (6.6) percent. These percentage  gains are inversely related to household landholding size.  Hence, land rental markets in Kenya appear to play an  important role in raising incomes and reducing poverty for  land-constrained smallholder farmers.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/103907},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.103907},
}