Tenant characteristics and the choice of tenurial contracts in rural India

Ananish Chaudhuri; Pushkar Maitra

doi:10.1002/jid.722

Tenant characteristics and the choice of tenurial contracts in rural India

Ananish Chaudhuri, Pushkar Maitra

Department of Economics

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Abstract

Existing theoretical models of land tenancy predict that more experienced workers will be offered tenancy contracts while the less experienced ones will be offered wage contracts. Using data from three Indian villages we map from the set of agent and plot-level characteristics to the set of contracts offered on each plot. We find that tenants are older than wage labourers. In the set of tenants, older workers tend to be cash renters.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	169-181
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of International Development
Volume	13
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.722
Publication status	Published - 10 Jul 2001

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