Analyzing the welfare‐improving potential of land in the former homelands of South Africa
利用南非种族隔离时期黑人被迫迁入黑人家园的时间差异作为工具变量，研究发现土地对家庭福利有显著正向影响，且因黑人家园条件较差，该影响是下限估计。
Abstract This article contributes to the debate on the role of land in reducing poverty in rural South Africa. It uses the year of arrival in the former homelands as an instrument for land access and size. This identification strategy is based on the fact that African households were forcibly relocated to the homelands during the apartheid. Due to increasing population pressure, later arrivals were less likely to be assigned land. The results show that land has a large positive effect on household welfare. Because the homelands are relatively disadvantaged areas, these results provide a lower bound for the positive effects of land on household welfare.