Impact of Property Rights Reform to Support China’s Rural-Urban Integration : Household-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment

Deininger, Klaus ; Jin, Songqing ; Liu, Shouying ; Xia, Fang

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: LIVING STANDARDS;    EMPLOYMENT;    PHYSICAL CAPITAL;    RIGHTS;    MOTIVATION;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-7388
RP-ID  :  WPS7388

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

As part of a national experiment in2008, Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious propertyrights reforms, including complete registration of all landtogether with measures to ease transferability and eliminatemigration restrictions. A triple difference approach usingthe Statistics Bureau’s regular household panel suggeststhat the reforms increased consumption and income,especially for less wealthy and less educated households,with estimated benefits well above the cost ofimplementation. Local labor supply increased, with the youngshifting toward agriculture and the old toward off-farmemployment. Agricultural yields, intensity of input use, anddiversity of output also increased. Improving propertyrights in peri-urban China appears to have increasedinvestment and diversification.