Impact of Property Rights Reform to Support China’s Rural-Urban Integration

Published By: World Bank Group | Published Date: August, 01 , 2015

As part of a national experiment, in 2008 Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability and eliminate labor market restrictions. This study uses a discontinuity design with spatial fixed effects to compare 529 villages just inside and outside the prefecture’s border. The results suggest that the reforms increased tenure security, aligned land use closer to economic incentives, mainly through market transfers, and led to an increase in enterprise start-ups. These impacts, most of which are more pronounced for villages with lower travel time to Chengdu city, point toward high potential gains from factor market reform.

Author(s): Songqing Jin, Songqing Jin, Shouying Liu, Ting Shao, Fang Xia | Posted on: Mar 20, 2016 | Views() | Download (217)


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