This paper examines both the correlates of land conflict and the effects of
this conflict on crop yields, farmers’ investments in permanent trees and
crops. The productivity effects of land conflict are estimated at the town-level
considering the endogeneity of conflict. We use data from the Household Income
Expenditure Survey (HIES) of Liberia and from the Innovations for Poverty Action
(IPA) baseline survey for the same year. The main findings reveal that gender,
distance from the farm to home or the road, soil quality, slope of the farmland,
marital status, soil erosion, government extension services and age of the