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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: Schwartz's book as discussed by the authors is really three books in one an analysis of the structural changes that produced one of the most oppressive social systems the world has known (the one-crop cotton tenancy economy and the system of institutionalized racism and authoritarian one-party politics that was required to preserve the fragile economic arrangement).
Abstract: \"Michael Schwartz's book is really three books in one an analysis of the structural changes that produced one of the most oppressive social systems the world has known (the one-crop cotton tenancy economy and the system of institutionalized racism and authoritarian one-party politics that was required to preserve the fragile economic arrangement); a theoretical analysis of the origins, mobilization, and outcome of insurgent challenges; and a meticulous application of that theory to the rise and collapse of the Populist movement.\" Craig Jenkins, \"Theory and Society\" \
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TL;DR: In this article, the choice between wage labor and sharecrop contracts is analyzed in a model that avoids both the pitfalls of previous models by introducing transactions costs with appropriate nonlinearities.
Abstract: The choice between wage labor and sharecrop contracts is analyzed in a model that avoids both the pitfalls of previous models--inefficiency of sharecropping and indeterminacy--by introducing transactions costs with appropriate nonlinearities. Plantation data from the American South provide empirical support for the hypothesized nonlinearity in transactions costs and simultaneous determination of direct supervision and contractual choice.
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TL;DR: In a recent study of neighborhood development, Goetz and Sidney as discussed by the authors found an "ideology of property" separating the interests of homeowners from lower-income tenants, and therefore public policy should benefit owners at the expense of renters.
Abstract: In a recent study of neighborhood development, Goetz and Sidney (1994) found an “ideology of property” separating the interests of homeowners from the interests of lower‐income tenants. According to this ideology, owners are better citizens than renters, and therefore public policy should benefit owners at the expense of renters. In spite of continuing research that shows this allegation to be false, a widespread bias against renters persists. Why is this so? A deliberate bias favoring property owners and harming renters has been prominent in American public policy from colonial times to the present, although its exact form has varied over time—property requirements for suffrage, land redistribution schemes promising ownership but delivering tenancy and poverty, and tax policies that privilege ownership and punish tenancy. Public policy that stigmatizes renters represents a bias as pernicious as other biases of gender, race, religion, and nationality.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the functioning of land rental markets in the Dominican Republic using a new data set collected specifically to characterize the entire market and show how insecure property rights leads to segmentation in the tenancy markets along socioeconomic group and hence severely limits access to land for the rural poor.
80 citations