The purpose of this study is to derive a theory of share tenancy with which to explore the
nature of resource allocation under one of the main forms of land tenure in agriculture. Share …

… production has taken place under sharecropping, in which a tenant supplies … sharecropping
and its failure to be inefficient recently led Steven Cheung to hypothesize that sharecropping …

This chapter is an attempt to examine some of the different explanations for the existence of
sharecropping. I discuss the roles of risksharing, incentive provision, wealth constraints, and …

In the traditional literature, sharecropping arrangements have been criticized in terms of their
incentive effects on the supply of labour. In the previous analysis, we focused on the risk …

… of sharecropping relationship. It is here that our pursuit of the lost origins of sharecropping
… At once we encounter issues which recur in the modern literature on sharecropping. We are …

… of sharecropping relationship. It is here that our pursuit of the lost origins of sharecropping
… their being seen as one of the earliest known instances of sharecropping.' In one rendering: …

The geographically pervasive and historically tenacious institution of sharecropping has
always been a fruitful source of great economic controversies. While the earlier writings were …

Sharecropping has proved the commonplace rental contract … It is not surprising, therefore, that
sharecropping has elicited … There has in fact been a plethora of literature on sharecropping …

… to it as the "monitoring approach" to sharecropping. This approach argues that landlords …
that are owned or rented, whether on a sharecropping or a fixed-rent basis. This approach was …

… sharecropping-is the foundation for sharecropping was rejected. The validity of assuming that
a sharecropping … tural risk as a major impetus for sharecropping, but only to the extent that …