As one mode of informal institutions, clan networks have played a key role in Chinese socioeconomic development, but there is currently no agreement on how clan networks affect social governance in rural areas. This paper investigates the nonlinear relationship between clan networks and social...

Traditionally, rental transactions between acquaintances have been regarded as informal, and associated with low rents. This view implies market segmentation and the malfunctioning of prices. Our study uses household-level data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) in 2015 to assess the...

This study examines the gender-differentiated effects of improved land property rights on labor reallocation using quasi-exogenous variation in the timing of the implementation of the Rural Land Contracting Law in China, which allows farmers to lease out their land. We find that while both men...

This study examined the gender-differentiated effects of improved land property rights on labor reallocation using quasi-exogenous variation in the timing of the implementation of the Rural Land Contracting Law in China, which allows farmers to lease out their land. We found that while both men...