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Mutual Insurance and Land Security in Rural Ghana
In this project, we study the impact of land rights’ formalization on functioning of informal insurance and land re-allocations in Ghana’s rural communities. First, we provide empirical evidence suggesting that increasing formal land rights improve land security, efficiency of informal land allocations, agricultural productivity and informal risk-sharing. Second, we develop a dynamic model of land and risk sharing subject to limited commitment constraints, where the equilibrium degree of co-operation is determined by the degree of land rights chosen. We show that the model can rationalize our empirical findings and can serve as a useful quantitative laboratory allowing for investigating (i) the interaction between the customary tenure and mutual insurance systems; (ii) the causal impact of increasing the formality of land markets on the functioning of these informal institutions; (iii) the degree of land misallocation due to missing land rights or limited commitment constraints; and (iv) effects of allowing land to act as collateral for credit.
Date:
2 December 2020, 17:00
Venue:
Held on Teams
Speaker:
Karol Mazur (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Department of Economics
Part of:
Postdoctoral Fellows Seminar
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Melis Clark
