Property Rights, Land Misallocation and Agricultural Efficiency in China
59 Pages Posted: 16 Dec 2017
Date Written: December 2017
Abstract
This paper examines the impact of a property rights reform in rural China that allowed farmers to lease out their land. We find the reform led to increases in land rental activity in rural households. Consistent with a model of transaction costs in land markets, our results indicate that the formalization of leasing rights resulted in a redistribution of land toward more productive farmers. Consequently, the aggregate productivity of land increased significantly. We also find that the reform increased the responsiveness of land allocation across crops to changes in crop prices.
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Chari, A.V and Liu, Elaine and Wang, Shing-Yi B. and Wang, Yongxiang, Property Rights, Land Misallocation and Agricultural Efficiency in China (December 2017). NBER Working Paper No. w24099, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3087042
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