RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 The Productivity Impacts of Formal and Informal Land Rights: Evidence from Madagascar JF Land Economics JO Land Econ FD University of Wisconsin Press SP 272 OP 290 DO 10.3368/le.89.2.272 VO 89 IS 2 A1 Bellemare, Marc F. YR 2013 UL http://le.uwpress.org/content/89/2/272.abstract AB This paper studies the relationship between land rights and agricultural productivity. Whereas previous studies used proxies for soil quality and instrumental variables to control for the endogeneity of land titles, the data used here include precise soil quality measurements, which in principle allow controlling for the unobserved heterogeneity between plots. Empirical results suggest that formal land rights (i.e., land titles) have no impact on productivity, but that informal land rights (i.e., landowners’ subjective perceptions of what they can and cannot do with their plots) have heterogeneous impacts on productivity. (JEL K11, Q15)