Purpose - The results of this study have significant policy implications for charting a new course toward enhancing agricultural productivity among Chinese farmers. Design/methodology/approach - By establishing a rural household decision-making model based on the transfer market of farmland...

Persistence of sharecropping tenancy and increases in farm productivity following regulations protecting tenant rights have been observed in many developing countries. This paper examines if these can be explained by alternative models of sharecropping with two sided efforts/investments, namely,...