Klaus Deininger
Biographic Data
| ID | 188592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Klaus Deininger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Klaus |
| FAMILY NAME | Deininger |
| SIGNATURE | DEININGER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3198-0083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 78 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1009 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 78 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Brief review of China’s forest tenure reform and introduction of the special issue
China’s rapid economic growth since the introduction of market reforms in 1978 has transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of people, but it has also created rampant inequalities between rapi
Forest tenure reform and the re-allocation of rural labor
Forest tenure decision under imperfect village democracy
Using satellite imagery and a farmer registry to assess agricultural support in conflict settings
Reforming land valuation and taxation in Ukraine
Benchmarking property institutions
Using free remotely sensed data to assess war-induced damage to agricultural cultivation
Impact of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian small and medium farmers’ productivity
Outward and upward construction
Quantifying war-induced crop losses in Ukraine in near real time to strengthen local and global food security
We use a 4-year panel (2019–2022) of 10,125 village councils in Ukraine to estimate effects of the war started by Russia on area and expected yield of winter crops aggregated up from the field level. Satellite imagery is used to provide information on direct damage to agricultural fields; classify crop cover using machine learning; and compute the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for winter cereal fields as a proxy for yield. Without…
Using registry data to assess gender-differentiated land and credit market effects of urban land policy reform
While well-defined urban property rights to support land and financial markets are widely considered to be essential for economic development, many studies using household-based data to study titling programs’ impact yield inconclusive results. We use a 2010–13 titling program in Maseru to argue that this may partly be attributable to a failure of using administrative data and the fact that impacts of policy change that affect treatment and contr…
Pronatal Property Rights over Land and Fertility Outcomes
An exogenous policy change that ended the ability of rural Ethiopian households to affect the size or security of their land holdings through fertility decisions provides a natural experiment to explore the impact of land tenure institutions on fertility. Use of a difference-in-differences approach that uses aggregated data from censuses before (1994) and after (2007) the reform found large fertility effects, with rural women estimated to have re…
Addressing Declining Female Labor Force Participation in India
Despite income growth, fertility decline, and educational expansion, female labour force participation in rural India dropped precipitously over the last decade. Nation-wide individual-level data allow us to explore if random reservation of village leadership for females affected women’s access to job opportunities, their demand for participation in the labour force, and income as well as intra-household bargaining in the short-and medium term. G…
Institutional determinants of large land-based investments’ performance in Zambia
Investment impacts of gendered land rights in customary tenure systems
Although most of the world’s agricultural land is cultivated under customary tenure regimes that tend to change over time in response to exogenous factors, the impact of customary rights on productivity and investment remains under-researched. Using unique data from an experiment in Malawi, we show that (i) parcel-level bequest and sale rights affect investment and cash crop adoption; (ii) impacts are gender-differentiated -women’s rights affect …
Land governance and tenure security at scale
Sustaining land registration benefits by addressing the challenges of reversion to informality in Rwanda
Personality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency
Although a large literature highlights the impact of personality traits on key labour market outcomes, evidence of their impact on agricultural production decisions remains limited. Data from 1,200 Ghanaian rice farmers suggest that noncognitive skills (polychronicity, work centrality, and optimism) significantly affect simple adoption decisions, returns from adoption, and technical efficiency in rice production, and that the size of the estimate…
Using satellite imagery to assess impacts of soil and water conservation measures
Gendered Incidence and Impacts of Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi’s Customary Tenure System
Malawi’s recent passage of Land Acts provide an opportunity to clarify different aspects of the country’s land tenure in an integrated way. To assess whether doing so might be economically justified, we explore incidence and impact of tenure insecurity among smallholders. Insecurity is not only widespread, with 22 per cent of land users being concerned about losing their land, but is also associated with a productivity loss of 9 per cent for fema…
Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation
Although many studies point towards significant positive impacts of Hindu Succession Act (HSA) reforms on females’ empowerment and access to human and physical capital, the fact that this reform also led to increased female mortality raises questions about long-term sustainability of reform effects. We use evidence from three states, one of which amended the HSA in 1994, to assess first- and second-generation effects of this reform using a triple…
Heterogeneous welfare impacts of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
We use a three-round, 4013-household panel from Andhra Pradesh, together with administrative data and village and population census data, to explore the welfare effects of India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on direct beneficiaries. NREGS participants in districts that had been exposed to the program for one year only significantly increased protein and energy intake while in districts with two-year exposure, participants w…
Assessing the long-term performance of large-scale land transfers
Does Land Fragmentation Increase the Cost of Cultivation? Evidence from India
To appreciate overall impacts of fragmentation, underlying channels, and potential heterogeneity by holding size, we distinguish average fragment size and mean inter-fragment distance as two aspects of this phenomenon. Estimating a cost function with associated input demand equations on a large nationally representative Indian survey, robust to endogeneity, suggests that fragmentation’s main impact is to reduce mean plot size below the threshold …
What Drives the Global Land Rush
New ways of looking at old issues
Challenges posed by the new wave of farmland investment
Despite recent headlines about the 'land rush', scant empirical evidence implies that the debate is often theoretical and dominated by preconceived notions. To provide evidence that could better inform the debate, this paper focuses on three areas. First, we find that new land demand, which skyrocketed after the 2007/08 commodity price spike, remained at high levels, with a strong focus on Africa, and often countries with weak land rights protect…
Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa
We evaluate the short-term impact of a pilot land regularization program in Rwanda using a geographic discontinuity design with spatial fixed effects. Three key findings emerge from the analysis. First, the program seems to have improved land access for legally married women (about 76% of married couples) and prompted better recording of inheritance rights without gender bias. Second, we find that the program was associated with a very large impa…
The potential of land rental markets in the process of economic development
The Rise of Large Farms in Land Abundant Countries
Making Negotiated Land Reform Work
Moving Off the Farm
Rural Land Certification in Ethiopia
Aids-Induced Orphanhood as a Systemic Shock
Quantifying Spillover Effects from Large Land-based Investment
South African land policy
Determinants and Impacts of Rural Land Market Activity
Identifying and addressing land governance constraints to support intensification and land market operation
Beyond concerns about agricultural productivity growth, issues of land governance have attracted global interest as demand for land acquisition by outsiders has increased rapidly but most of the transfers failed to live up to expectations and instead disrupted local livelihoods. We use the land governance assessment framework to identify key conceptual issues and identify how land governance in 10 African countries compares to global good practic…
The Impact of Property Rights on Households' Investment, Risk Coping, and Policy Preferences
Even though it is widely recognized that \n giving farmers more secure land rights may increase \n agricultural investment, scholars contend that, in the case \n of China, such a policy might undermine the function of land \n as a social safety net and, as a consequence, not be \n sustainable or command broad support. Data from three \n provinces, one of which had adopted a policy to increase \n security of tenure in advance of the others, sugges…
Land Fragmentation, Cropland Abandonment, and Land Market Operation in Albania
Smallholders’ land access in Sub-Saharan Africa
While scholars long recognized the importance of land markets as a key driver of rural non-farm development and transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent of their operation and the nature of participants remains limited. We use household data from 6 countries to show that there is great potential for such markets to increase productivity and equalize factor ratios. While rental markets transfer land to land-poor and labor-rich produce…
Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity
Going digital
Small price incentives increase women's access to land titles in Tanzania
Rural Nonfarm Employment and Income Diversification in Colombia
Collective agricultural production
New Ways to Assess and Enhance Land Registry Sustainability
Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
No AccessPolicy Research Working Papers15 Nov 2013Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Evidence from Andhra PradeshAuthors/Editors: Klaus Deininger, Yanyan LiuKlaus Deininger, Yanyan Liuhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-6543SectionsAboutPDF (0.9 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract: This paper uses a three-round 4,000-household panel from An…
Heterogeneous welfare impacts of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
We use a three-round, 4013-household panel from Andhra Pradesh, together with administrative data and village and population census data, to explore the welfare effects of India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on direct beneficiaries. NREGS participants in districts that had been exposed to the program for one year only significantly increased protein and energy intake while in districts with two-year exposure, participants w…
Determinants and Consequences of Land Sales Market Participation
South African land policy
Collective agricultural production
Rent Seeking and the Development of Large-Scale Agriculture in Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality
This article presents a new data set on inequality in the distribution of income. The authors explain the criteria they applied in selecting data on Gini coefficients and on individual quintile groups' income shares. Comparison of the new data set with existing compilations reveals that the data assembled here represent an improvement in quality and a significant expansion in coverage, although differences in the definition of the underlying data…
New ways of looking at old issues
Making Negotiated Land Reform Work
Poverty, Policies, and Deforestation
Asset Distribution, Inequality, and Growth
June 2000 - Policymakers addressing the impact of inequality on growth should be more concerned about households' access to assets - and to the opportunities associated with them - than about the distribution of income. Asset inequality - but not income inequality - has a relatively great negative impact on growth and also reduces the effectiveness of educational interventions. With the recent resurgence of interest in equity, inequality, and gro…
Rural Nonfarm Employment and Income Diversification in Colombia
Does cost of schooling affect enrollment by the poor? Universal primary education in Uganda
Determinants and Impacts of Rural Land Market Activity
Aids-Induced Orphanhood as a Systemic Shock
The Impact of Property Rights on Households' Investment, Risk Coping, and Policy Preferences
Even though it is widely recognized that \n giving farmers more secure land rights may increase \n agricultural investment, scholars contend that, in the case \n of China, such a policy might undermine the function of land \n as a social safety net and, as a consequence, not be \n sustainable or command broad support. Data from three \n provinces, one of which had adopted a policy to increase \n security of tenure in advance of the others, sugges…
Does Greater Accountability Improve the Quality of Delivery of Public Services? Evidence from Uganda
While the importance of corruption as a possible impediment to foreign investment in an international context is now well realized, it is not clear to what extent corruption affects, either directly through bribe-taking or indirectly through inadequate quality of public services, the level of economic activity by domestic entrepreneurs. Using a large survey from Uganda, the authors show that domestic and foreign entrepreneurs, government official…
Economic Benefits and Costs of Land Redistribution in Zimbabwe in the Early 1980s
The potential of land rental markets in the process of economic development
Tenure security and land-related investment
Incidence and impact of land conflict in Uganda
Sri Lanka’s Rural Non-Farm Economy
Determinants and Consequences of Land Sales Market Participation
Rural Land Certification in Ethiopia
Assessing the Functioning of Land Rental Markets in Ethiopia
Although a large theoretical literature discusses the possible inefficiency of sharecropping contracts, empirical evidence on this phenomenon has been ambiguous at best. Household‐level fixed‐effect estimates from about 8,500 plots operated by households that own and sharecrop land in the Ethiopian highlands provide support for the hypothesis of Marshallian inefficiency. At the same time, a factor adjustment model suggests that the extent to whic…
Land rental markets in the process of rural structural transformation
Land Registration, Governance, and Development
The developmental impact of institutions to establish and maintain secure property rights to land has been a subject of much debate. The authors review the literature on the impact of land administration interventions in specific contexts, highlighting the dependence of outcomes on the governance environment, the effectiveness of the state apparatus, and the distribution of socio-economic power. There is evidence, albeit not uniform, of enhanceme…
Impacts of Low‐Cost Land Certification on Investment and Productivity
New land reforms are again high on the policy agenda and low‐cost, propoor reforms are being tested in poor countries. This article assesses the investment and productivity impacts of the recent low‐cost land certification implemented in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, using a unique household and farm‐plot‐level panel data set, with data from before and up to eight years after the reform. Alternative econometric methods were used to test and cont…
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