Measuring land rental market participation in smallholder agriculture can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics?
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR and advanced research institute | en |
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR multi-centre | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | International Food Policy Research Institute | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | University of Copenhagen | en |
| cg.coverage.region | Africa | |
| cg.coverage.region | Sub-Saharan Africa | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Gashaw T. Abate: 0000-0003-2026-8066 | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Kibrom Abay: 0000-0003-1451-2421 | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Jordan Chamberlin: 0000-0001-9522-3001 | |
| cg.howPublished | Grey Literature | en |
| cg.identifier.project | IFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit | |
| cg.identifier.project | IFPRI - Development Strategies and Governance Unit | |
| cg.identifier.publicationRank | Not ranked | |
| cg.number | 2255 | en |
| cg.place | Washington, DC | en |
| cg.reviewStatus | Internal Review | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Abate, Gashaw T. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Abay, Kibrom A. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Chamberlin, Jordan | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Sebsibie, Samuel | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-31T15:44:30Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-31T15:44:30Z | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/144206 | |
| dc.title | Measuring land rental market participation in smallholder agriculture can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics? | en |
| dcterms.abstract | The emergence of rural land rental markets in Sub-Saharan Africa is recognized as a key component of the region’s ongoing economic transformation. However, the evidence base on land market participation relies on survey-derived measures, which do not always cohere when compared and triangulated, suggesting the possibility of non-trivial measurement error. We report the results of a priming and list experiments designed to shed light on a persistent mystery in rural household survey data from Africa: why there are so many fewer self-reported landlords (renters-out) than tenants (renters-in)? Our design addresses two hypotheses using experimental data from Ethiopia. First, rented-out and rented-in land may be systematically underreported because enumerators and respondents are typically primed to emphasize parcels that are actively managed/cultivated by the household. Second, rented or sharecropped-out land may be systematically underreported because of respondents’ reluctance to acknowledge an activity for which public disclosure may have negative repercussions. We address the first hypothesis with a priming experiment by exposing a random subset of respondents to a nudge that explicitly reminded them to fully account for all land, including rented/sharecropped-in and rented/sharecropped-out. We address the second hypothesis with a double-list experiment, designed to elicit true rates of land renting and sharecropping-out. We find that nudging induces about 4 percentage points increase (or 13% in relative terms) in the share of households participating in renting in or sharecropping-in practices but has negligible effects on reported rates of renting and sharecropping-out. Interestingly, our list experiment indicates much higher revealed rates of renting-out (14-15%) than is reflected in the nominal parcel-roster responses (3%). The magnitude of the latter finding fully explains the apparent difference in renting in versus renting-out rates derived from the regular parcel roster responses. These results indicate that efforts to document land market participation rate and associated impacts must overcome large systematic reporting biases. | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dcterms.audience | Scientists | en |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Abate, Gashaw Tadesse; Abay, Kibrom A.; Chamberlin, Jordan; and Sebsibie, Samuel. 2024. Measuring land rental market participation in smallholder agriculture can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics? IFPRI Discussion Paper 2255. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/144206 | en |
| dcterms.extent | 41 p. | en |
| dcterms.isPartOf | IFPRI Discussion Paper | en |
| dcterms.issued | 2024-05-31 | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.license | Copyrighted; all rights reserved | |
| dcterms.publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute | en |
| dcterms.subject | land | en |
| dcterms.subject | households | en |
| dcterms.subject | survey design | en |
| dcterms.subject | surveys | en |
| dcterms.type | Working Paper |