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Leasehold estate

About: Leasehold estate is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1589 publications have been published within this topic receiving 21480 citations. The topic is also known as: leasehold & tenancy.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between landowner's share and land quality and physiological population density and showed that high landowner share can be associated with high land quality or high physiological density.
Abstract: Substantial variations in landowner's share under sharecropping arrangements are documented. Partial relationships between landowner's share and land quality and between landowner's share and physiological population density are explained by extensions of the competitive theory of share tenancy. It is shown that high landowner's share can be expected to be associated with high land quality and or high physiological density. The tendency for increases in population to be associated with increases in landlords' shares can be ameliorated by land-saving technological change.

33 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative study was conducted to investigate the nature of the implementation gap and the factors that explain it in the case of Ghana where the existing law on land registration provides for the registration of diverse customary land rights, but ambiguity and contradictions among laws made at different times as well as practices of implementation of the law often result in the registration process of only leasehold titles while neglecting other customary rights.

33 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors show how recent developments in the economics of information can provide insights into economic relations in less developed countries, and how they can provide explanations for institutions which, in neoclassical theory, appear anomalous and/or inefficient.
Abstract: This paper shows how recent developments in the economics of information can provide insights into economic relations in less developed countries, and how they can provide explanations for institutions which, in neoclassical theory, appear anomalous and/or inefficient. Sharecropping and other tenancy relationships in the rural sector and wage determination and urban unemployment are both investigated within this perspective.

33 citations

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TL;DR: In the early 1900s, the U.S. Census Bureau incorrectly classified sharecroppers as tenants, placing too many workers on that more affluent rung of the ladder as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the increase in tenancy, particularly in the South, alarmed many social commentators and later was an issue taken up by a number of historians.' Indeed the issue of rising tenancy rates was a major plank in the platform of the Populist movement. However, before one can make interpretations of the welfare of agricultural workers as a result of this rise in tenancy one needs to look more closely at the individual rungs of the agricultural ladder.2 This article sets out to repair the damaged sharecropper rung on the southern agricultural ladder. Without additional information regarding this rung, it is impossible to get a complete picture of the movement up and down the southern agricultural ladder. In the census years 1900 and 1910, the Census Bureau incorrectly classified sharecroppers as tenants, placing too many workers on that more affluent rung of the ladder. The intent of this article is to estimate the number of sharecroppers in order to provide a more accurate count of the number of "true tenants" in these years. With this more complete depiction of the agricultural ladder, movements up and down the ladder between the years 1900 and 1960 can be more accurately discussed, and thereby a basis is provided for scholars to accurately address the true welfare implications of these movements. Much of the misunderstanding of how the postbellum southern agricultural system worked is based on misinterpretations of how the census defined a "tenant," specifically how it defined a "share tenant." Beginning in 1920, the U.S. Census changed its "share tenant" category to exclude "sharecroppers." From then on share tenants and sharecroppers (or more commonly referred to as just "croppers") were, in the eyes of the census, fundamentally different types of farm operators. Although a cropper farmed a certain plot and received a share of the harvest from that plot as income, he often differed from other tenants in important respects, especially when he worked on a plantation.3 There he was usually closely supervised; he made none of the major farming decisions; and he generally supplied no input besides labor services. In most southern states he had no legal possession

33 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the impact of three tenancy contracts on investment in soil-improving and productivity-enhancing measures and farm productivity was analyzed using a multivariate to-bit model that accounts for potential substitutability and complementarity of investment options.

33 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202340
2022125
202128
202028
201956
201857