The implication of property rights for joint agriculture-timber productivity in the Brazilian Amazon

摘要

This paper examines the effects of the Brazilian governments'title granting policies on the efficiency of agricutural and timberproduction in the Brazilian Amazon. A two-stage procedure is usedthat combines Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and a Tobit regression.Provision of private land titles before 1995 is found to positivelyaffect The technical efficiency of agricultural and jointagriculture-timber production in 1995. Governmental expenditures,including expenditures to secure property rights, also are Found toincrease technical efficiency in the agricultural industry.