Mongolia - Urban Property Rights Project Special Hashaa Plot Survey 2011-2013

The impact evaluation study of the MCA-M PRP will be the first fully randomized evaluation of a large-scale land titling program. Randomization will occur at the geographic level akin to a neighborhood. Mongolian cities are divided up into a number of administrative units - the smallest being the “kheseg”. Khesegs were chosen as the unit of randomization for the study because they are a well-defined unit that is small and numerous enough to allow for sufficient statistical power. The baseline estimation strategy will be a differences-in-differences approach, where we compare the outcomes of households in the treatment group with the control group as well as before and after the completion of the formalization activities. Exposure to treatment was 66% in Darkhan and Erdenet, and 50% in Ulaanbaatar districts. There are no results to report as of now because only the baseline has been conducted so far.