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Know your rights! A field experiment on legal knowledge, property rights, and investment in Kenya

Published:2023-09-28 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:8756-6222
Container-title:The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
language:en
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Author:

Aberra Adam¹,Chemin Matthieu¹²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Economics, McGill University , Montreal H3A2T7, Canada

2. Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative (CIREQ) , Montreal H3T 1N8, Canada

Abstract

Abstract Knowledge of the laws is needed for them to have an impact. In this article, we test the effects of disseminating legal knowledge, carefully designed to the particular circumstances of small-scale farmers living with uncertain property rights on their land. We find that greater legal knowledge increases the security of property rights and investment on the land (JEL K4, O1).

Funder

ELIMU

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Law,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management,Economics and Econometrics

Link

https://academic.oup.com/jleo/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/jleo/ewad020/51792651/ewad020.pdf

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