The long-term impact of land certification on factor reallocation and household welfare in rural China

IF 5.1 1区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY
Minjie Chen , Guangcheng Ren , Nico Heerink
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Abstract

Well-defined and secure land tenure rights are critical for promoting factor reallocation and improving household welfare. Yet, available studies on land tenure security-enhancing programs generally do not consider time lags in their implementation and provide mixed evidence on the impact on rural household welfare. This paper estimates the long-term effects of China's 2009–2018 land certification program on factor reallocation and household welfare, using survey data collected in 2019 from three Chinese provinces. We exploit village-level variation in the number of years since program completion, addressing potential selection bias in program rollout. The results show that longer program exposure significantly increases households' participation in land rental markets, driven primarily by increased probability of land renting-in rather than renting-out. However, we find no statistically significant effect on cross-sectoral labor reallocation. Changes in agricultural investment patterns and operational farm sizes further support the observed evidence in land and labor reallocation. Regarding household welfare, while agricultural income rises with longer program exposure, total household income does not. Further analysis of income dispersion suggests that the program has a pro-poor distributional effect at the sample level but not within villages. These findings underscore the importance of understanding the discrepancies between policy design and implementation in evaluating program impact and provide novel evidence on the sustained effects of land tenure reforms.
土地认证对中国农村要素再配置和农户福利的长期影响
明确和有保障的土地保有权对于促进要素再分配和改善家庭福利至关重要。然而,现有的关于提高土地保有权安全方案的研究通常没有考虑到实施过程中的时间滞后,并且在对农村家庭福利的影响方面提供了好坏参半的证据。本文利用2019年在中国三个省份收集的调查数据,估计了中国2009-2018年土地认证计划对要素再配置和家庭福利的长期影响。我们利用自项目完成以来村级的年数变化,解决项目推出中潜在的选择偏差。结果表明,较长的计划曝光时间显著增加了家庭对土地租赁市场的参与,这主要是由于土地租赁而不是租赁的可能性增加。然而,我们发现跨部门劳动力再分配没有统计学上显著的影响。农业投资模式和经营农场规模的变化进一步支持了在土地和劳动力再分配方面观察到的证据。在家庭福利方面,虽然农业收入随着计划曝光时间的延长而增加,但家庭总收入却没有增加。对收入差距的进一步分析表明,该计划在样本层面上具有有利于穷人的分配效应,但在村庄内部却没有。这些发现强调了在评估项目影响时理解政策设计和实施之间差异的重要性,并为土地权制改革的持续影响提供了新的证据。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Rural Studies publishes research articles relating to such rural issues as society, demography, housing, employment, transport, services, land-use, recreation, agriculture and conservation. The focus is on those areas encompassing extensive land-use, with small-scale and diffuse settlement patterns and communities linked into the surrounding landscape and milieux. Particular emphasis will be given to aspects of planning policy and management. The journal is international and interdisciplinary in scope and content.
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