Krah, KwabenaMaertens, AnnemieMhango, WeziMichelson, HopeNourani, Vesall2024-11-142024-11-142024-03-06World Bank Economic Review0258-6770https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42416This paper documents the role of village fairness norms in land markets. A strong and robust relationship is established between experimentally elicited village-level fairness norms and land-rental rates across 250 Malawian villages. Stronger fairness norms correlate with a tighter range in village rental rates. The study suggests that the fairness norms for tenants appear to be more important, constraining the land-rental price range by a price ceiling rather than a price floor. The results further indicate that rented-in fields are of lower agronomic quality than owner-cultivated fields, but do not find any statistically significant relationship between the fairness norms and land-rental activity in the village.en-USCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGOFAIRNESS NORMSLAND RENTALLAND MARKETSSUB-SAHARAN AFRICAMALAWIJournal ArticleWorld Bank10.1596/42416