Data for Take what you can : property rights, contestability and conflict 1997-2020

In economic models of conflict, outbreaks of violence require a prize that is both valuable and contestable. This article exploits spatial and temporal variation in the availability of land with title that is contestable by private actors to explore the relationship between (in)secure property rights and civil conflict in the Brazilian Amazon.

The results suggest that resolving this contestability of title at the local level could eliminate substantively all local land-related violence but might increase conflict in areas where title remained contestable.<br><br>Data record is empty. Data is contained as supplementary information in the official publication record. Data set constructed containing the share of land under protection for the 792 municipalities in the Amazon states for each year between 1997 and 2010.