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QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
Volume 122, Issue 4, Pages 1561-1602Publisher
M I T PRESS
DOI: 10.1162/qjec.2007.122.4.1561
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Between 1996 and 2003, the Peruvian government issued property titles to over 1.2 million urban households, the largest titling program targeted at urban squatters in the developing world. This paper examines the labor market effects of increases in tenure security resulting from the program. To isolate the causal role of ownership rights, I make use of differences across regions induced by the timing of the program and differences across target populations in level of preprogram ownership, rights. My estimates suggest that titling results in a substantial increase in labor hours, a shift in labor supply away from work at home to work in the outside market, and substitution of adult for child labor.
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