@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp14263,
            	author={Kurosaki, Takashi and Paul, Saumik and Witoelar, Firman},
            	title={Out of Communal Land: Clientelism through Delegation of Agricultural Tenancy Contracts},
            	year={2021},
	month={Apr},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={14263},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14263},
	abstract={Do local institutions influence the nature of political clientelist exchange? We find a positive answer in the context of a village institution prevalent in Java since the Dutch colonial rule, where democratically elected village heads receive usufruct rights over a piece of communal village land (bengkok land) as a compensation for their service in lieu of salary. To formulate how limited-term private ownership of bengkok land promotes clientelism, we model a timely delegation of agricultural tenancy contracts to villagers-cum-voters as an incumbent re-election strategy. Based on a household survey fielded in 2018 across 130 villages in Java, Indonesia, we find that the chances of a bengkok plot being rented out increase by 6 percentage points as the time of the next election becomes closer by one year, and sharecropping is preferred to a fixed-rental contract as the election approaches. The empirical results are statistically significant and remain largely unchanged against a series of robustness checks. We also find suggestive evidence of short-term efficiency loss from clientelist politics over bengkok land.},
	keywords={electoral competition;agricultural tenancy;clientelism;political budget cycle;tanah bengkok;Indonesia},
            }