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Jon Reiersen

Bargaining and Efficiency in Sharecropping

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Abstract
The paper uses a generalized Nash bargaining to derive solutions for the rental share and labor input in sharecropping. The bargaining is modeled as a two stage process. There is first a bargain about the rental share, and then a bargain about labor input. The power of the landlord to ensure an outcome favorable to himself may differ in the two stages. By imposing particular assumptions about these bargaining powers, some popular models of sharecropping that has been treated as completely separate in the literature, can be derived as special cases in our model. However, we also generate a new class of models. It is also demonstrated that it is not the tenant’s influence in the labor input decision per se which causes inefficiency in sharecropping, but differences in the tenant’s influence over different issues in the contract. This is in contrast to the popular view which states that if the tenant controls the level of labor input, sharecropping will result in an inefficient resource allocation.

About the Author:
Jon Reiersen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economic and Social Studies at Vestfold College.

Previous versions of this paper have been presented at the 17th National Meeting of Economics, University of Bergen, January 1997 and at the workshops Institutions in Development, University of Copenhagen, June 1997.

Correspondence: Department of Economic and Social Studies, P.O. Box 2243, N-3103 Tønsberg, Norway, or e-mail to jon.reiersen@hive.no

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