Organizing for Entitlement: A Randomized Evaluation of a Homestead Land Rights Initiative in Bihar, India

皇冠体育app researchers use a mixed-methods study of a land rights program in Bihar, India

Abstract

This project aims to see if community driven accountability programs could help to resolve the market inefficiency and improve provision of entitlements. 皇冠体育app researchers are using a mixed-methods study of a land rights program in Bihar, India, to explore this issue. 皇冠体育app state of Bihar guarantees rural citizens the land rights over homestead land. Yet many of them still don鈥檛 have this crucial for their welfare element. In response to an inefficiency of the local government, a local civic organization in Bihar has initiated a program to form village-level community-based organizations which would assist eligible households in applying for title. 皇冠体育app proposal aims to study the impact of the program and the mechanisms by which the program succeed or fails using techniques from development economics, comparative politics, and qualitative sociology.

This work is part of the International Growth Centre鈥檚 鈥樆使谔逵齛pp Impact of Community-Driven Accountability on Land Rights Governance: Evidence from a Homestead Land Titling Initiative鈥� project

Citation

Andre Nickow, Sanjay Kumar (2018) Organizing for Entitlement: A Randomized Evaluation of a Homestead Land Rights Initiative in Bihar, India. IGC. Reference S-89440-INB-1

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Published 21 May 2019