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Take what you can: property rights, contestability and conflict
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posted on 2023-06-09, 04:02 authored by Thiemo Fetzer, Sam MardenWeak property rights are strongly associated with underdevelopment, low state capacity and civil conflict. In economic models of conflict, outbreaks of violence require a prize that is both valuable and contestable. This paper exploits spatial and temporal variation in the availability of land with title that is contestable by private actors, to explore the relationship between (in)secure property rights and civil conflict in the Brazilian Amazon. The results suggest that resolving this contestability of title at the local level could eliminate substantively all local land-related violence but might increase conflict in areas where title remained contestable.
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Economic JournalISSN
0013-0133Publisher
Wiley-BlackwellExternal DOI
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601Volume
127Page range
757-783Department affiliated with
- Economics Publications
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2016-11-14First Open Access (FOA) Date
2019-05-24First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2016-11-14Usage metrics
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