We study the impact of China's land use regulation on firm productivity. Our theoretical analysis shows that a restriction on the supply of industrial land will reduce the number of operating firms and harm their average productivity. We employ a natural experiment based on geography and find...

This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data. We study two margins of tenure security, whether a household...