Sharecropping contracts in rural India: A note

In this article we examine the terms of sharecropping contracts using data from rural India. We examine the effect of - (1) the sharing of input costs between landlord and tenant; (2) the tenant's capacity to borrow: and (3) the existence of outside employment opportunities for the tenant - on the s hare parameter. We regress the share paid by the household on a set of cult ivating household and village level characteristics and find that cost shar ing and the existence of outside employment opportunities significantly aff ect the share parameter.