LAND TITLING AND HOUSEHOLD LABOR SUPPLY: EVIDENCE FROM MEXICO
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This paper uses a panel dataset of rural households and the roll-out of a nationwide land titling program in Mexico to explore the impact of tenure security on household labor supply. The results of this paper suggest that land titling decreased the number of hours in wage employment, but did not affect labor supply in own-farm agriculture. Moreover, cultivated land increased with the certification program. Suggestive evidence shows that the certification program reduced the number of children working on their own farms. The results are robust to several specifications and support the parallel trends hypothesis.
TITULACIÓN DE TIERRA Y OFERTA LABORAL DE LOS HOGARES: EVIDENCIA PARA MÉXICO
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Este artículo utiliza un conjunto de datos de panel de hogares rurales y la implementación de un programa nacional de titulación de tierras en México para explorar el impacto de la seguridad de la tenencia de la tierra en la oferta laboral de los hogares. Los resultados de este artículo sugieren que la titulación de tierras disminuyó el número de horas de empleo asalariado, pero no afectó la oferta de mano de obra en la agricultura propia. Además, la tierra cultivada aumentó con el programa de certificación. La evidencia sugiere que el programa de certificación redujo la cantidad de niños que trabajan en sus propias granjas. Los resultados son robustos a varias especificaciones y apoyan la hipótesis de tendencias paralelas.
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