Collective property leads to household investments: lessons from land titling in Afro-Colombian communities
In the developing world, collective land titling has become an important tool for recognizing the historical presence of ethnic communities and safeguarding their rights to occupy and manage their territories. However, little is known about the average impact of these titling processes on the well-b...
- Autores:
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Peña Parga, Ximena
Vélez Lesmes, María Alejandra
Cárdenas Campo, Juan Camilo
Perdomo, Natalia
- Tipo de recurso:
- Work document
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2016
- Institución:
- Universidad de los Andes
- Repositorio:
- Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/8644
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/1992/8644
- Palabra clave:
- Afro-descendants
Collective property
Colombia
Ethnic community
Land titling
Propiedad de la tierra - Investigaciones - Chocó (Colombia) - Modelos matemáticos
Afrocolombianos - Tenencia de la tierra - Chochó (Colombia) - Modelos matemáticos
Derecho de propiedad - Chocó (Colombia)
Q15, Q24, R52, N36, N56
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
| Summary: | In the developing world, collective land titling has become an important tool for recognizing the historical presence of ethnic communities and safeguarding their rights to occupy and manage their territories. However, little is known about the average impact of these titling processes on the well-being of these communities. In this paper we attempt to estimate the impact of collective land titling in territories inhabited by Afro-descendent communities in Colombia. Using an Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) estimation, we compare rural districts in titled areas with rural districts in untitled areas that are similar in all the relevant observable characteristics. We find that the collective titling process in the Chocó region has caused an increase in average household per capita income, larger investments in housing, higher attendance rates among children in primary education, and a decrease in housing overcrowding. Our results suggest that collective land titling creates a more secure natural resource base and a longer time horizon for households in collective territories, which leads to investment in their private physical and human capital. |
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