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Politics and Land Reforms in India
Description
yearly observations of 89 villages from 1974 to 2003
number of observations : 2670
number of time-series : 30
country : India
package : panellimdep
JEL codes: D72, O13, O17, Q15
Chapter : 08
Usage
data(LandReform)Format
A dataframe containing:
- mouza
village id number
- year
Year
- district
District
- rplacul
ratio of patta land registered to operational land
- rpdrhh
ratio of pattadar households to total households (hh)
- rblacul
ratio of barga land registered to operational land
- rbgdrrghh
ratio of bargadar registered hh to total hh
- election
election year dummy
- preelect
preelection year dummy
- edwalfco
to complete
- erlesscu
interpolated landless hh, gi
- ermgcu
interpolated mg hh, gi
- ersmcu
interpolated sm hh, gi
- ermdcu
interpolated md hh, gi
- ercusmol
ratio of land below 5 acres cultivable NOT extrapolated
- ercubgol
ratio of land above 12.5 acres cultivable
- erillnb
interpolated ratio of illiterate non big hh
- erlow
interpolated ratio of low caste hh
- ratleft0
Left Front share in GP, == 0 for 1974
- dwalfco
Assembly average vote difference LF-INC, district
- inflat
Inflation in last 5 years in CPI for Agricultural Labourers
- smfempyv
Year variation in Employment in Small Scale Industrial Units registered with Dir
- incseats
INC seats / Total seats in Lok Sabha
- lfseats
Ratio of LF seats in parliament
- inflflag
Interaction between Inflation and ratleft lagged
- inclflag
Interaction between INC seats and ratleft lagged
- lflflag
Interaction between LF seats and ratleft lagged
- ratleft
Left Front share in GP, ==share of assembly seats for 1974
- infiw
to complete
- infumme
to complete
- infal
to complete
- gp
Gran Panchayat
Source
American Economic Association Data Archive : https://www.aeaweb.org/aer/
References
Bardhan, Pranab and Dilip Mookherjee (2010) “Determinants of Redistributive Politics: An Empirical Analysis of Land Reform in West Bengal, India”, American Economic Review, 100(4), 1572–1600, doi: 10.1257/aer.100.4.1572 .