Land policies are of fundamental importance to sustainable growth, good governance, and the well-being of, and the economic opportunities open to, both rural and urban dwellers - particularly the poor. To this end, research on land policy, and analysis of interventions related to the subject,...

Using a sample of one million land transactions in China from 2006 to 2013, I find that the average price of publicly auctioned residential land is nine times higher than the price of adjacent local government-designated industrial land. An industry in a city receiving greater industrial land...