Submissions Accepted for Presentation at the World Bank Land Conference 2024

Big data from space for informed land management: towards a global 4D monitoring of the built environment

Thomas Esch^1,2, Edward Charles Anderson³, Klaus Deininger³, Rashmin Gunasekera³, Remi Jedwab^4,5, Mattia Marconcini¹, Daniela Palacios-Lopez¹, Hogeun Park³, Julian Zeidler¹

1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; 2: Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany; 3: World Bank, USA; 4: George Washington University, USA; 5: New York University, USA

An anatomy of urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Pierre-Philippe Combes², Clement Gorin³, Shohei Nakamura¹, Mark Roberts¹, Benjamin Stewart¹

1: The World Bank; 2: Sciences Po; 3: University of Paris 1

Where Is poverty concentrated? New evidence based on internationally consistent urban and poverty measurements

Shohei Nakamura, Pierre-Philippe Combes, Robin Moellerherm, Charlotte Robert, Mark Roberts, Benjamin Stewart, Slava Yakubenko

World Bank, United States of America

Estimating household-level economic characteristics from high-resolution satellite imagery

Satej Soman^1,2, Susana Constenla-Villoslada^1,2, Emily Aiken^1,2, Joshua E. Blumenstock^1,2,3

1: School of Information, University of California, Berkeley; 2: Global Policy Lab, University of California, Berkeley; 3: Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

Bargaining power and inheritance norms: evidence from polygamous households in Nigeria.

Alessia Isopi¹, Jennifer Golan²

1: University of Manchester, United Kingdom; 2: University of Bath, United Kingdom

Agricultural land and the marital bond: The significance of joint land titles for women in western Uganda

Michelle Poulin¹, Rachael Pierotti²

1: University of California, Berkeley, USA; 2: World Bank, United States of America

What’s hers isn’t mine: Gender-differentiated tenure security, agricultural investments and productivity in sub-Saharan Africa

Martin Mwale¹, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert²

1: Government of Malawi,; 2: Purdue University

He says, she says, the GPS says: gender gaps in agricultural survey responses in Ghana

Ariel BenYishay¹, Seth Goodman¹, Katherine Nolan¹, Rachel Sayers¹, Kunwar Singh¹, Madeleine Walker², Jessica Wells¹

1: AidData, William & Mary, United States of America; 2: University of California, Davis, United States of America

Reviewing the evidence on land: An overview of land impact evaluation literature and lessons learned

Heather Huntington¹, Jennifer Lisher²

1: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 2: World Bank

Lessons learned from MCC land evaluations

Benjamin Linkow

Millennium Challenge Corporation, United States of America

Land regularization and agricultural productivity: an empirical study in Andean countries

Maja Schling, Magaly Saenz

Interamerican Development Bank, United States of America

Quasi-experimental evidence on the impact of land regularization: Urban and rural findings from Mozambique

Heather Huntington¹, Christina Seybolt², Kate Marple-Cantrell³

1: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 2: Social Impact; 3: Cloudburst Group

Land markets participation for migrants and natives in western of Madagascar: inclusion or exclusion and reallocation effects

Heriniaina Rakotomalala¹, Perrine Burnod², Emmanuelle Bouquet³

1: FAO Madagascar, Think tany Madagascar; 2: CIRAD UMR TETIS, Think tany Madagascar; 3: CIRAD UMR‐MOISA

Urban village regeneration and migrant preference for relocation: Evidence from Shenzhen, China

Caixia Liu¹, Ulf Liebe², Shuyi Feng³, Eveline van Leeuwen¹, Francesco Cecchi¹

1: Wageningen University & Research; 2: University of Warwick; 3: Nanjing Agricultural University

Misallocation or measurement error: evidence on Vietnam's agriculture

Tram Hoang¹, Songqing Jin¹, Klaus Deininger², Hai-Anh Dang²

1: Michigan State University, United States of America; 2: The World Bank

Under control? price ceiling, queuing, and misallocation: evidence from the housing market in China

Qiyao Zhou

University of Maryland, United States of America

Estimating the economic value of zoning reform

Jonah Rexer¹, Santosh Anagol², Fernando Ferreira³

1: World Bank Group, United States of America; 2: University of Pennsylvania; 3: University of Pennsylvania

Under the (Neighbor)Hood: understanding Interactions among Zoning Regulations

Amrita Kulka¹, Aradhya Sood², Nicholas Chiumenti³

1: University of Warwick, United Kingdom; 2: University of Toronto, Canada; 3: United States Department of Agriculture

Finding home when disaster strikes: Dust Bowl migration and housing in Los Angeles

Diogo Baerlocher¹, Gustavo Cortes², Vinicios Sant'Anna³

1: University of South Florida; 2: University of Florida; 3: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Urban forests: environmental health values and risks

Jianwei Xing¹, Zhiren Hu², Fan Xia³, Jintao Xu¹, Eric Zou⁴

1: Beijing University; 2: Cornell University; 3: Nanjing University; 4: University of Michigan

Beyond Ostrom: Randomized experiment of the impact of individualized tree rights on forest management in Ethiopia

Ryo Takahashi¹, Keijiro Otsuka², Mesfin Tilahun³, Emiru Birhane⁴, Stein Holden⁴

1: Waseda University, Japan; 2: Kobe University; 3: Mekelle University; 4: Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Valuing the hidden benefits of forest-based climate change mitigation

Ingrid Schulte^1,2, Alexander Golub³, Christine Gerbode⁴, Constantino Dockendorff¹, Sabine Fuss^1,2

1: Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Germany; 2: Humboldt University of Berlin; 3: American University; 4: Environmental Defense Fund

Spatiotemporal scenarios for deforestation in Brazil’s Legal Amazon

Philipp Kollenda^1,2, Rafaella Almeida Silvestrini³, Andrea Santos Garcia^3,4, Dieter Wang¹, Marek Hanusch¹, Alvaro Maia Batista³, Carla Christina Solis Uehara¹

1: The World Bank Group, Washington, DC, US; 2: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL; 3: IPAM - Amazon Environmental Research Institute, Brasilia, BR; 4: Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, BE

Who wants property rights? Conjoint evidence from Senegal

Matthew Ribar

Stanford University, United States of America

State reach and gender norms: Examining the uptake of equitable land rights in Malawi

Lauren Honig¹, Adam Harris², Ellen Lust³

1: Boston College, United States of America; 2: University College London; 3: University of Gothenburg

Why land registration systems fail.The case of Torrens in USA

Nicolás Nogueroles

University Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona Spain

Tanzania demand for documentation study: who pays for land documents, and why?

Lauren Persha¹, Yuliya Panfil², Sallie Sherman³, Mustapha Issa Mpelembe⁴, Mtalemwa Rutizibwa⁴

1: NORC at the University of Chicago, United States of America; 2: New America, United States of America; 3: DAI, United States of America; 4: LTA NGO, Tanzania

To cluster or not to cluster? Land as a binding constraint to cluster-based development in Ethiopia

Guyo Godana Dureti, Martin Paul Tabe-Ojong

University of Bonn, Ethiopia

Agricultural mechanization services, moral hazard and by-stage productivity of small farms: evidence from wheat production in northern China

Sheng Yu¹, Hangyu Zhang¹, Jiping Ding²

1: Peking University, China, People's Republic of; 2: NORTHWEST A&F UNIVERSITY, China, People's Republic of

Land property rights and resource misallocation evidence from land certification programs in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Tanzania

Mamadou Mouminy Bah

University Felix Houphouet-Boigny (UFHB), Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Impacts of a mandatory shift to decentralized online auctions on revenue from public land leases in Ukraine

Klaus Deininger¹, Daniel Ayalew Ali¹, Roman Neyter²

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine

The assessment gap: racial inequalities in property taxation

Carlos Avenancio-Leon¹, Troup Howard²

1: University of California - San Diego; 2: University of Utah

To own or to rent? The Effects of transaction taxes on housing markets

Lu Han¹, Liwa Rachel Ngai², Kevin Sheedy³

1: University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States; 2: Imperial College London and London School of Economics, United Kingdom; 3: London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Becoming legible to the state : The role of identification and collection capacity in taxation

Oyebola Okunogbe

World Bank, United States of America

Decentralization, tax administration, and taxation: evidence from brazil's rural land tax

Arthur Braganca¹, Diogo Britto², Alexandre Fonseca³, Davi Moura⁴, Breno Sampaio⁵, Andre Sant'anna⁶, Dimitri Szerman⁷

1: World Bank; 2: University of Milan-Bicocca; 3: Federal Revenue of Brazil; 4: London School of Economics; 5: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; 6: BNDES; 7: Amazon

Impacts of a digital credit-insurance bundle for landless farmers: Evidence from a cluster randomized trial in Odisha, India

Berber Kramer¹, Subhransu Pattnaik¹, Patrick Ward^1,2, Yingchen Xu²

1: International Food Policy Research Institute; 2: University of Florida

Resilience strategies to agricultural shocks and their effects on family farms in rural areas in Senegal

Marie Ndeye Gnilane Diouf¹, Andre Dumas Tsambou², Nelson Sergeo TagangTene³

1: Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal; 2: University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon; 3: University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon

Ricardian land values and Economic Impacts of climate change on crop agriculture: Case of Malawi

Assa Maganga^1,3,5, Levison Chiwaula², Patrick Kambewa³, Mary Ngaiwi⁴

1: African Center of Excellency for Agriculture Policy Analysis, LUANAR; 2: MwAPATA Institute; 3: University of Malawi; 4: Alliance of Bioversity International & CIAT, Colombia; 5: Everest Intelligence Consult

Does household access to agricultural land influence nutritional outcomes in developing countries? Evidence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Janvier Mwisha Kasiwa

University of Goma, Congo, Democratic Republic of the

The effects of tenure security on women's empowerment and food security: Evidence from a land administration program in Ecuador

Maja Schling¹, Nicolás Pazos², Leonardo Corral¹, Marisol Inurritegui¹

1: Inter-American Development Bank, United States of America; 2: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America

The efficiency of customary land tenure systems in resource allocation and their impact on well-being

Timothy Mtumbuka

KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

The challenges of legal recognition of agropastoralists' land rights in Madagascar

Oginot Germier Manasoa^1,2,3, Perrine Burnod^1,2, Claudine Ramiarison^3,4, Patrick Ranjatson^5,2, Rebecca Mclain⁶

1: CIRAD, Madagascar; 2: Think Tany; 3: ED GRND; 4: CIDST; 5: ESSA-Forêt; 6: CIFOR

Improvement of land governance on Mailo tenant lands in Uganda

Heather Huntington², Kate Marple-Cantrell¹, Daniel Ali³, Thea Hilhorst³

1: The Cloudburst Group, United States of America; 2: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 3: The World Bank

Land Market and Conflict: Impact of the FARC Peace Agreement on Land market: A Case Study of Caquetá, Colombia

Alexander Buritica, Augusto Castro, Manuel Moreno, Deborah Pierce, Carolina Gonzalez

Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Colombia

Indigenous peoples, land and conflict in Mindanao, Philippines

Jose Cuesta^1,2, Lucia Madrigal¹

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Georgetown University

Collateral damage: The impact of forced eradication of illicit crops on human capital

Anderson Tami Patino¹, Daniela Horta Saenz²

1: Florida International University, United States of America; 2: Aix Marseille Universite, France

Evaluating urban planning: evidence from Dar es Salaam

Tanner Regan¹, Guy Michaels², Vernon Henderson², Martina Manara³, Francisco Libano-Monteiro²

1: George Washington University, United States of America; 2: LSE; 3: University of Sheffield

Government–directed urban growth, firm entry, and industrial land prices in Chinese cities

Jan Brueckner¹, Wenhua Liu², Wei Xiao², Junfu Zhang³

1: University of California-Irvine, USA; 2: Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China; 3: Clark University, USA

What we do in the shadows: how urban density facilitates information diffusion

Qing Zhang¹, Evan Kresch²

1: Google, Inc; 2: Oberlin College, United States of America

Anti-Corruption Campaign and the Resurgence of the SOEs in China: Evidence from the Real Estate Sector*

Hanming Fang¹, Jing Wu², Rongjie Zhang², Li-an Zhou³

1: Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, and the NBER; 2: Department of Construction Management and Hang Lung Center for Real Estate, Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of; 3: Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, China, People's Republic of

Towns and rural land inequality in India

Manaswini Rao¹, Prashant Bharadwaj², Juan Eberhard³

1: University of Delaware, United States of America; 2: University of California San Diego, United States of America; 3: Universidad Andres Bello, Chile

Financial development and rural transformation: evidence from counties in China

Xuerong Wang¹, Xinpeng Xu², Yu Sheng¹

1: Peking University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Hong Kong Polytech University, Hong Kong SAS

Does market integration increase rural land inequality? Evidence from India

Claudia Berg¹, Brian Blankespoor¹, Shahe Emran², Forhad Shilpi¹

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Columbia University

The Green Revolution and rural inequality: India

Leah Bevis

Ohio State University, United States of America

Global forest carbon: Policy, economics and finance

Runsheng Yin

Michigan State University, United States of America

A jurisdictional framework for monetizing future values of emissions reductions from avoided deforestation: An application to Brazil

Alexander Golub¹, Marek Hanusch², Diogo Bardal³, Bruce Keith³, Daniel Simon², Cornelius Fleischhaker²

1: American University, United States of America; 2: The World Bank; 3: IFC

The elephant in the room: land governance challenges of climate change mitigation

David Betge, Frederike Kluemper, Jes Weigelt

TMG Research, Germany

Effective governance structures for integrated carbon farming projects: evidence from Kenya

Friederike Schilling

University of Bonn, Germany

Impacts of land registration and cash grants on agricultural investment: evidence from women farmers in Uganda

Joao Montalvao, Michael O'Sullivan

World Bank, United States of America

A seat at the table: The role of information, conditions, and voice in redistributing intra-household property rights

Ludovica Cherchi¹, James Habyarimana², Joao Montalvao¹, Michael O'Sullivan¹, Chris Udry³

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Georgetown University; 3: Northwestern University

Tenure Insecurity and the Continuum of Documentation in a Matrilineal Customary System

Laura Meinzen-Dick¹, Helder Zavale², Hosaena Ghebru³

1: Villanova University, United States of America; 2: Eduardo Mondlane University; 3: International Food Policy Research Institute

Does gender matter in the adoption of digital land market? Evidence from rural household welfare in Nigeria

Abdulrazaq Kamal Daudu

University of Ilorin, Nigeria, Nigeria