Published February 10, 2012
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Published January 11, 2012
Insecure Land Rights, Land Tenancy, and Sharecropping
My job-market paper — for nonacademics, that’s the paper I presented when giving recruitment seminars when I was on the job market back in 2006 — is finally published.
From the latest issue of Land Economics:
Most studies of tenurial insecurity focus on its effects on investment. This paper studies the hitherto unexplored relationship between tenurial insecurity and land tenancy contracts. Based on distinct features of formal law and customary rights in Madagascar, this paper augments the canonical model of sharecropping by making the strength of the landlord’s property right increasing in the amount of risk she bears within the contract. Using data on landlords’ subjective perceptions in rural Madagascar, empirical tests support the hypothesis that insecure property rights drive contract choice but offer little support in favor of the canonical risk sharing hypothesis.
After working on this on and off for almost ten years, I am glad to finally see this article in print.
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Facebook and Signalling: Are There Negative Consequences to not Being on Facebook?
From a letter to the editor published in last Saturday’s New York Times:
[O]ne big concern I have not seen discussed is whether not having a Facebook page is a liability.
An acquaintance recently told me that his church had hired a new minister. The final decision on which of two excellent candidates to hire came down to their Facebook pages. Presumably, candidates without Facebook pages didn’t get a second look.
Are we at the point where low Internet presence equals low job prospects?
We’ve all heard theories according to which Facebook is an enabler of narcissism, but this raises an interesting point regarding Facebook’s signalling potential.