Drawing upon a unique farm survey in 2003, I find that in rural China, Full-scale Land Reallocation (FLR) are more … likely to follow egalitarian rule and Partial-scale Land Reallocation (PLR) take productivity of households into … consideration. Econometric evidences shows two main results. First, FLR have positive effect on household land rental behavior …

This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on the rural labor market outcomes for women. The existing … literature emphasizes two mechanisms through which land restrictions can affect the economic outcomes: the collateral value of … land, and (in) security of property rights. Analysis of this paper focuses on an alternative mechanism where land …

By applying a unified framework, this book examines the impact of land tenure reforms on poverty reduction and natural … resource management in countries in Africa and Asia with highly diverse historical contexts. These land tenure reforms include … Land-to-the-tiller policies, Market assisted land redistribution reforms, Tenure security enhancing low-cost reforms …

We exploit substantial variation in land-market institutions across Indian states and detailed micro household …-level panel data to assess the effect of distortions in land rental markets on agricultural productivity. We provide empirical … evidence that states with more rental-market activity feature less misallocation and reallocate land more efficiently over time …

Impact and desirability of land transfers in post-socialist-transition economies have been subject of considerable … debate. We use data from Vietnam to identify factors conducive to the development of land markets and to assess potentially … differential impacts of rental and sales. Results show that both rental and sales transfer land to more productive producers but …

The extent to which households should be allowed to transfer their land rights in post-socialist transition economies … sales of land use rights, to identify factors conducive to the development of land markets and to assess the extent to which … land transfers enhance productive efficiency and transfer land to the poor. They find that activity in both rental and …