Heterogeneous Effects of Urban Land Titling: A Replication of ‘Property Rights for the Poor’
复制了Galiani和Shargrodsky关于布宜诺斯艾利斯贫困地区土地确权效应的研究，确认其结论稳健，并发现确权效果因性别和教育水平而异。
We replicate the analysis of Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Shargrodsky’s (GS) influential 2010 article ‘Property rights for the poor: effects of land titling’. GS use a natural experiment in a poor urban area of Buenos Aires to find that land titling increases housing investment, reduces household size, and increases child education, but does not do so through increased use of credit. The original questionnaires and raw data are not available and the existing variables provided by GS allow only a limited replication analysis. Despite these limitations, we successfully reproduce the original findings published by GS, and find these results are robust to alternative specifications. We also find heterogeneous effects regarding gender and education level of the original squatter.