Field’s titling study results may reflect political context rather than property effects

Evidence

For reasons I will explain, the paper’s findings concerning the impact of property titling seem to me implausible. I will suggest a number of features of Peruvian politics and urban settlement that offer alternative explanations for the apparent increase in hours worked—explanations more closely linked to the implementation of the titling program and to its location within the wider networks of neoliberalism. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1929

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Evidence for titling’s virtuous ownership cycle collapses under scrutiny of closed think-tank circuits. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 164; Bank-funded research showed property titling failed to increase credit for the poor — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1954; Property titling was theorized to shift child labor to adult labor within households — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1927 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The titling study’s appeal was methodological as much as substantive #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1937
• Researchers measured conventionalism via matched incumbent House election margins across threat levels #exemplifies (0.70) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 808