Land Accumulation Dynamics in Developing Country Agriculture
利用巴拉圭的独特面板数据，检验了关于微观层面土地积累动态的主要理论，发现农场增长与规模系统相关，否定了随机增长理论，并指出土地所有权对积累有重要影响。
Understanding land accumulation dynamics is relevant for policy makers interested in the economic effects of land inequality in developing country agriculture. We thus explore and simultaneously test the leading theories of microlevel land accumulation dynamics using unique panel data from Paraguay. The results suggest that farm growth varies systematically with farm size --a formal rejection of stochasticgrowth theories (that is, Gibrat's Law)-- and that titled land area may have considerable infuence on land accumulation. Furthermore, our estimates indicate that a dualistic agrarian structure is the likely product of the unfettered operation of land markets.