On the Choice of Tenancy Contracts in Rural India
利用印度农村数据，分析农户和地块特征如何影响地主选择自耕、固定地租或分成租佃，发现地块价值越高越可能自耕，租佃中高价值地块更倾向分成制。
This paper uses data from rural India to analyse how cultivating household and plot level characteristics affect contract choice on a particular plot of land. We estimate a sequential choice model where the landowner first decides whether to cultivate the land on his own (possibly with hired labour) or to lease it out. If the latter, then a choice is made between fixed‐rent or share‐cropping. One interesting finding is that the greater the value of the plot, the greater is the probability that the plot is owner cultivated. Moreover, among tenant cultivated plots, higher value plots are share‐cropped.