@article{Ghebru:277440,
      recid = {277440},
      author = {Ghebru, H. and Holden, S.},
      title = {Land Access, Land Rental Markets and Rural Poverty  Dynamics in Northern Ethiopian Highlands: Panel Data  evidence using Survival Models},
      address = {2018-07},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {There is growing interest in understanding the links  between land reforms, land markets and poverty reduction in  Africa. The study uses four-wave panel data from Norther  highlands of Ethiopia to assess the dynamics of rural  poverty taking into account rural households status of  participation in the land rental market. Applying both  non-parametric (Kaplan-Meier estimator) and semi-parametric  survival models that control for duration dependence of  poverty transition, results show participation and degree  of participation on the supply side of the tenancy market  (landlords) have highly significant and positive effect on  the chances of escaping poverty while the same cannot be  said about the demand side of the tenancy market (tenants).  The empirical evidence also confirms that households headed  by older and literate people have relatively larger exit  rates from poverty as compared to households headed by  younger and illiterate ones. Though transacting farmers may  engage themselves in win win rental arrangements by the  time they join the tenancy market, results indicate that  gains are unequal as those tenants who enter the markets  from low economic leverage (were poor) are liable to face  lower margin of net gains, which may limit their ability to  move out of poverty. 

Acknowledgement :  Funding for this  research has been received from the Research Council of  Norway, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,and the  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and  further finanicial support from the CGIAR Research Program  on Policies, Institutions, and Markets, led byIFPRI. None  of these funders were directly involved in the design or  implementation of the surveys and analytical work. The  authors are not aware of any conflicts of interestrelated  to the paper. The authors acknowledge valuable cooperation  with Mekelle University and the Ethiopia Development  Research Institute. All remaining errors are the sole  responsibility of the authors.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/277440},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.277440},
}