Cash and Share Renting: An Empirical Test of the Link Between Entrepreneurial Ability and Contractual Choice
Volume: Volume 12, No. 1
Issue: Spring 1981
Pages: pp. 296-299
Authors: D.J. Brown and J.H. Atkinson
Title: Cash and Share Renting: An Empirical Test of the Link Between Entrepreneurial Ability and Contractual Choice
Abstract: Why do rent, wage, and sharecropping contracts exist simultaneously? One possibility is that contract types distinguish between workers with different endowments of managerial ability. This article describes an empirical test of the link between managerial ability and contract choice.
JEL Classification
Agriculture Farm Management (7160)
Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform (7171)