China's land reform during 1978 to 1984 has brought about dramatic changes to rural population. This paper presents empirical evidence that the land reform negatively affected human capital investment. Exploiting the county-by-county rollout of the land reform and use the...

The study is devoted to the measurement of productivity and efficiency change in Chinese farming sector over the reform process in the 1980s and 1990s. Within an output distance function framework, an index of total factor productivity is decomposed into technical and allocative efficiency,...