Measuring land rental market participation in smallholder agriculture can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics?
The emergence of rural land rental markets in Sub-Saharan Africa is recognized as a key component of the region’s ongoing economic transformation. However, the evidence base on land market participation relies on survey-derived measures, which do not always cohere when compared and triangulated, sug...
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| author | Abate, Gashaw T. Abay, Kibrom A. Chamberlin, Jordan Sebsibie, Samuel |
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| description | The emergence of rural land rental markets in Sub-Saharan Africa is recognized as a key component of the region’s ongoing economic transformation. However, the evidence base on land market participation relies on survey-derived measures, which do not always cohere when compared and triangulated, suggesting the possibility of non-trivial measurement error. We report the results of a priming and list experiments designed to shed light on a persistent mystery in rural household survey data from Africa: why there are so many fewer self-reported landlords (renters-out) than tenants (renters-in)? Our design addresses two hypotheses using experimental data from Ethiopia. First, rented-out and rented-in land may be systematically underreported because enumerators and respondents are typically primed to emphasize parcels that are actively managed/cultivated by the household. Second, rented or sharecropped-out land may be systematically underreported because of respondents’ reluctance to acknowledge an activity for which public disclosure may have negative repercussions. We address the first hypothesis with a priming experiment by exposing a random subset of respondents to a nudge that explicitly reminded them to fully account for all land, including rented/sharecropped-in and rented/sharecropped-out. We address the second hypothesis with a double-list experiment, designed to elicit true rates of land renting and sharecropping-out. We find that nudging induces about 4 percentage points increase (or 13% in relative terms) in the share of households participating in renting in or sharecropping-in practices but has negligible effects on reported rates of renting and sharecropping-out. Interestingly, our list experiment indicates much higher revealed rates of renting-out (14-15%) than is reflected in the nominal parcel-roster responses (3%). The magnitude of the latter finding fully explains the apparent difference in renting in versus renting-out rates derived from the regular parcel roster responses. These results indicate that efforts to document land market participation rate and associated impacts must overcome large systematic reporting biases. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1442062025-11-06T13:15:35Z Measuring land rental market participation in smallholder agriculture can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics? Abate, Gashaw T. Abay, Kibrom A. Chamberlin, Jordan Sebsibie, Samuel land households survey design surveys The emergence of rural land rental markets in Sub-Saharan Africa is recognized as a key component of the region’s ongoing economic transformation. However, the evidence base on land market participation relies on survey-derived measures, which do not always cohere when compared and triangulated, suggesting the possibility of non-trivial measurement error. We report the results of a priming and list experiments designed to shed light on a persistent mystery in rural household survey data from Africa: why there are so many fewer self-reported landlords (renters-out) than tenants (renters-in)? Our design addresses two hypotheses using experimental data from Ethiopia. First, rented-out and rented-in land may be systematically underreported because enumerators and respondents are typically primed to emphasize parcels that are actively managed/cultivated by the household. Second, rented or sharecropped-out land may be systematically underreported because of respondents’ reluctance to acknowledge an activity for which public disclosure may have negative repercussions. We address the first hypothesis with a priming experiment by exposing a random subset of respondents to a nudge that explicitly reminded them to fully account for all land, including rented/sharecropped-in and rented/sharecropped-out. We address the second hypothesis with a double-list experiment, designed to elicit true rates of land renting and sharecropping-out. We find that nudging induces about 4 percentage points increase (or 13% in relative terms) in the share of households participating in renting in or sharecropping-in practices but has negligible effects on reported rates of renting and sharecropping-out. Interestingly, our list experiment indicates much higher revealed rates of renting-out (14-15%) than is reflected in the nominal parcel-roster responses (3%). The magnitude of the latter finding fully explains the apparent difference in renting in versus renting-out rates derived from the regular parcel roster responses. These results indicate that efforts to document land market participation rate and associated impacts must overcome large systematic reporting biases. 2024-05-31 2024-05-31T15:44:30Z 2024-05-31T15:44:30Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/144206 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Abate, Gashaw Tadesse; Abay, Kibrom A.; Chamberlin, Jordan; and Sebsibie, Samuel. 2024. Measuring land rental market participation in smallholder agriculture can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics? IFPRI Discussion Paper 2255. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/144206 |
| spellingShingle | land households survey design surveys Abate, Gashaw T. Abay, Kibrom A. Chamberlin, Jordan Sebsibie, Samuel Measuring land rental market participation in smallholder agriculture can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics? |
| title | Measuring land rental market participation in smallholder agriculture can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics? |
| title_full | Measuring land rental market participation in smallholder agriculture can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics? |
| title_fullStr | Measuring land rental market participation in smallholder agriculture can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring land rental market participation in smallholder agriculture can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics? |
| title_short | Measuring land rental market participation in smallholder agriculture can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics? |
| title_sort | measuring land rental market participation in smallholder agriculture can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics |
| topic | land households survey design surveys |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/144206 |
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