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

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

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

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

Land tenure security and deforestation: experimental evidence from Uganda

Sarah Walker, Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Anne Bartlett, Alice Calder

Oregon State University, United States of America

Who gains from individual property rights? Evidence from the allotment of Mapuche reservations

Felipe Jordán Colzani², Robert Heilmayr¹

1: University of California, Santa Barbara, United States of America; 2: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Indigenous community recognition, identity, and democracy

Michael Albertus

University of Chicago, United States of America

Losing territory: The effect of administrative district splits on land use in the tropics

Lennart Reiners¹, Elías Cisneros², Krisztina Kis-Katos³

1: Asian Development Bank, Philippines; 2: The University of Texas at Dallas; 3: University of Göttingen, IZA, and RWI research networks

Land rental markets: experimental evidence from Kenya

Michelle Acampora¹, Lorenzo Casaburi², Jack Willis³

1: Harvard University; 2: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 3: Columbia University

Misallocation in Indian agriculture

Marijn A. Bolhuis

IMF, United States of America

Land-market restrictions and agricultural productivity under market power

Julian Arteaga

University of California, Davis

The effects of female land inheritance on economic productivity in Ghana

Nathan Barker

University of Chicago, United States of America

Fallow Lengths and the Structure of Property Rights

Etienne LeRossignol¹, Sara Lowes², Eduardo Montero³

1: Université de Namur; 2: University of California San Diego; 3: University of Chicago

Land values and formal property rights: evidence from 21 African countries

Matthew Ribar

Stanford University, United States of America

Property rights and social institutions: how informal institutions and chiefs shape land formalization in urban Africa

Pablo Balan¹, Augustin Bergeron², Gabriel Tourek³, Jonathan Weigel⁴

1: Tel Aviv University, Israel; 2: University of Southern California; 3: University of Pittsburgh; 4: University of California, Berkeley

Land- and credit-market effects of urban land titling: Evidence from Lesotho

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger

World Bank, United States of America

How property shapes distributional preferences

Marco Fabbri, Maria Bigoni

University of Bologna, Italy

Property rights without transfer rights: a study of Indian land allotment

Dustin Frye¹, Christian Dippel^2,4, Bryan Leonard³

1: University of Wisconsin - Madison; 2: Ivey Business School - Western University; 3: Arizona State University; 4: National Bureau of Economic Research

Market design for Land Trade: Evidence from Uganda and Kenya

Gharad Bryan

London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Credit impacts of titling rural habitation land: Evidence from India’s SVAMITVA scheme

Klaus Deininger¹, Hari K Nagarajan², Abhiman Das², Daniel Ali¹, Parth Hirpara²

1: World Bank, United States of America; 2: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Does local politics drive tropical land-use change? Property-level evidence from the Amazon

Erik Katovich

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Land-use transformation and conflict: The effects of oil palm expansion in Indonesia

Elias Cisneros¹, Tobias Hellmundt², Krisztina Kis-Katos²

1: University of Texas at Dallas; 2: University of Goettingen

Development mismatch: evidence from agricultural projects in pastoral Africa

Eoin McGurk¹, Nathan Nunn²

1: Tufts University, United States of America; 2: University of British Columbia, Canada

Landmine clearance and economic development: evidence from nighttime lights, multispectral satellite imagery, and conflict events in Afghanistan

Ariel BenYishay¹, Rachel Sayers¹, Kunwar Singh¹, Christian Baehr², Madeleine Walker³

1: William & Mary, United States of America; 2: Princeton University, United States of America; 3: University of California-Davis

Land Concentration and Long-Run Development in the Frontier United States

Cory Smith

University of Maryland, United States of America

Political competition and state capacity: evidence from a land allocation program in Mexico

Juan Felipe Riano

Georgetown University, United States of America

Harvesting votes: the electoral effects of the Italian land reform

Bruno Caprettini¹, Lorenzo Casaburi², Miriam Venturini³

1: University of St. Gallen, Switzerland; 2: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 3: University of Zurich, Switzerland

Tillers of prosperity: Land ownership, reallocation, and structural transformation

Shuhei Kitamura

Osaka University, Japan

The effects of transportation infrastructure on deforestation in the amazon: a general equilibrium approach

Arthur Braganca¹, Rafael Araujo², Juliano Assuncao³

1: World Bank, Brazil; 2: FGV EESP; 3: PUC-Rio

Climate change and migration: the case of Africa

Bruno Conte

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Temperature shocks and land fragmentation Evidence from transaction and property registry data

Heitor Pellegrina¹, Julian Arteaga², Margarita Gafaro³, Nicolas de Roux⁴, Ana Maria Ibanez⁵

1: University of Notre Dame, United States of America; 2: UC davis; 3: Banco de la Republica; 4: Universidad de Los Andes; 5: IDB

Interest-based negotiation over natural resources: experimental evidence from Liberia

Alessandro Toppeta¹, Darin Christensen², Alexandra Hartman³, Cyrus Samii⁴

1: Stockholm University, Sweden; 2: UCLA; 3: UCL; 4: NYU