Economists studying developing countries express mixed views about the potential poverty-reducing contribution of agricultural land reform. This study uses a 2010 survey of 11,000 Myanmar households involved in agricultural production to estimate the maximum reduction of poverty that could, hypothetically, be attained from a redistributive land reform. The method first estimates the statistical relationship between household expenditure per adult equivalent and the household’s holdings of irrigated and unirrigated land, along with a large set of control variables. This estimated relationship is then used to estimate the effects that hypothetical redistributions of land holdings would have on the distribution of expenditures.

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