Property Rights, Land Misallocation, and Agricultural Efficiency in China

Chari, Amalavoyal V.; Liu, Elaine M.; Wang, Shing-Yi; Wang, Yongxiang

doi:10.1093/restud/rdaa072

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“…China has changed the land structure of contracting production to households and liberalized land circulation, and land distribution has changed from absolute equality to relative equality. The land was redistributed to the peasants with higher productivity [9]. The land system has a profound effect on the income distribution of rural households [10].…”

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Research on the Impact of Land Circulation on the Income Gap of Rural Households: Evidence from CHIP

Huo

Chen

2021

Land

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With the continued development of the economy, the income gap among Chinese rural households continues to widen. The land system plays a decisive role in developing “agriculture, rural areas and farmers” and land circulation is a factor in the increase in income inequality among farm households. Based on the 2013 China Household Income Project (CHIP), this article used the re-centered influence function (RIF) regression method to empirically test the impact of rural land circulation on the income gap of rural households in China in three regions: the central, eastern and western regions. The quantile regression tested the impact mechanism of income inequality of rural households from the perspective of labor mobility and land circulation. The empirical results showed that land circulation increases the income inequality of rural households. The theoretical mechanism test proved that the dynamic relationship between land circulation and labor mobility increases rural household income. However, this increase has a greater effect on rural households with a high income and a small effect on rural households with a low income, resulting in a further widening of the income gap. Therefore, while increasing the income of rural households through land circulation, the government should also consider income equity. Finally, this article puts forward the policies and opinions on land reform and provides a brief discussion on the future direction of development.

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Research on the Impact of Land Circulation on the Income Gap of Rural Households: Evidence from CHIP

Huo

Chen

2021

Land

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“…For example, the Law of the People's Republic of China on Land Management (1998), which formally permits farmers to transfer their land-use rights, is intended to facilitate rural land transactions institutionally. As a result, about two-thirds of China's rural land-use rights have been redistributed, with more productive farmers receiving access to larger areas of land [26,27].…”

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Induced Agricultural Production Organizations under the Transition of Rural Land Market: Evidence from China

Guo

2021

Agriculture

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This paper focuses on the impact of a new rural land reform, the Separation of Three Rights Reform, on changes in China’s agricultural production organizations. We illustrate the impact of market and nonmarket mechanisms on allocating agricultural production factors under the new rural land market transition through a land system and factor allocation model. Based on the expansion paths of different types of factors in the model, we classify the development of Chinese agricultural production entities into “extensional expansion,” “labor-intensive expansion,” “land-intensive expansion,” and “exit of agricultural production.” These agricultural production paths correspond to agricultural enterprises, family farms, agricultural cooperatives, and small farmers’ exit. Further, empirical and economic geography analysis results show that the interaction of market and nonmarket mechanisms is the main drive that induces the current diversified organizations in rural China. Thus, this paper provides a comprehensive explanation of changing patterns of an agricultural production organization under the transition of the rural land market.

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“…In 2003, China announced the Rural Land Contracting Law (RLCL), which provides legal protection for farmers to rent out or rent in the land. Chari et al (2017) found that the RLCL increased crop output and aggregate productivity by redistributing the land toward more productive farmers.…”

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The Experience of Poverty Reduction in Rural China

Fang

Gai

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Since 1978, China has greatly reduced the rural poverty rate. This article provides an overview of the experience of China’s poverty reduction. Using panel data from 1996 to 2013 to calculate farmers’ income dynamics, we found that the pace of poverty reduction was relatively slow from 1996 to 2002 and that the rate of reversion to poverty was high. Since 2003, the pace of poverty reduction has accelerated, whereas the rate of reversion has decreased. Using econometric ordinary least squares and probit models, we explore the factors that drive poverty reduction. We found correlational evidence that the main reasons for poverty reduction in China since 1996 have been the increase in income from household farms and migrant work. In addition, rural public insurance prevented farmers from falling into poverty.

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Property Rights, Land Misallocation, and Agricultural Efficiency in China

Cited by 162 publications

References 47 publications

Research on the Impact of Land Circulation on the Income Gap of Rural Households: Evidence from CHIP

Research on the Impact of Land Circulation on the Income Gap of Rural Households: Evidence from CHIP

Induced Agricultural Production Organizations under the Transition of Rural Land Market: Evidence from China

The Experience of Poverty Reduction in Rural China

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