While land reforms have long been motivated as a potential policy lever of rural growth and development, there is remarkably little evidence of the direct impacts of such reforms. In an effort to fill this lacunae, this paper examines South Africa's Land Redistribution for Agricultural...

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...