@article{Ayalew:277532,
      recid = {277532},
      author = {Ayalew, H.},
      title = {Is tenure Security Pro-poor? Decomposing Welfare Effects},
      address = {2018-07},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {We examine the impact of land tenure security on household  welfare among poor house- holds in rural Ethiopia. Using  the 2005 land title certification program as a quasi-  experiment, we exploit the variation in the differential  timing of certification between treated and control groups.  Estimated results from binary and continuous treatment  effect models point out that land tenure security  significantly improves the welfare of poor households in  rural Ethiopia. This effect varies depending on the length  of house- hold's treatment duration. Households who have  longer treatment duration receive a higher average welfare  gain from the program. We also decompose the welfare  effects of the program into different channels. Hired labor  is the main mediator through which land title certification  affects household welfare. 

Acknowledgement :  I  gratefully acknowledge Henrik Hansen, Finn Tarp, Elisabeth  Sadoulet, Alain de Janvry, John Rand, Edward Samuel Jones,  Yonas Alem, Benedikte Bjerge, Alexandra Orsola-Vidal,  Kuranda Morgan, Daley Kutzman, for their invaluable  comments on earlier versions; participants of the work in  progress seminar at the University of California Berkeley,  University of California Santa Cruz, University of  Gothenburg, University of Copenhagen, Development Economics  Research Group (DERG) at the University of Copenhagen,  World Bank 2016 Land and Poverty Conference, the Nordic  Conference in Development Economics in Copenhagen, Center  for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) conference at  Oxford University for helpful suggestions and comments.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/277532},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.277532},
}