Joint Land Titling and Household Bargaining in Madagascar
通过分析和数值模拟，研究了土地联合登记如何影响夫妻的家庭内部议价地位，以及夫妻在个人男性产权和联合产权之间的选择。结果表明，初始议价地位较弱的女性在改革后可能进一步被削弱。
This paper investigates analytically and through numerical simulations how the intrahousehold bargaining positions of a couple are affected by the opportunity to title agricultural land, and how the couple’s choice between an individual male title and a joint title is determined. The results suggest that when land registration is offered to couples as a discrete choice between individual or joint titles, there is a risk that women with weak initial bargaining positions will be further weakened following the reform. A joint title will only be chosen if the spouses start off with relatively equal bargaining positions; otherwise a male title will be chosen. An application of the model to the situation of Madagascar, using household survey data, supports the predictions of the model.