Property rights and land quality

IF 4.2 2区 经济学 Q1 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY American Journal of Agricultural Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI:10.1111/ajae.12440
Haoyang Li, Jiong Zhu
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This paper presents a novel study examining the effect of a property rights law reform that legalized land transfers on land quality. Using unique Chinese county-level land erosion data, we show that formally legalizing land transfers significantly reduces land erosion. This is an important and surprising benefit of a secure land transfer right to the land resource itself and a positive biophysical spillover to the natural environment that is largely ignored in the existing literature and in the policy making process. We further demonstrate that the land quality improvement brought by the law reform was associated with an increase in farming investments that can improve land quality but are subject to economies of scale. Land concentration made such investments economically feasible. We also show that the land quality-improving benefits are unevenly distributed across regions with different socioeconomic backgrounds. Future land law reforms should consider both the potential efficiency and equality implications in terms of land quality.

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产权和土地质量
本文是一项新颖的研究,探讨了产权法改革使土地转让合法化对土地质量的影响。通过使用中国县级土地侵蚀的独特数据,我们发现土地流转的正式合法化大大减少了土地侵蚀。这是保障土地流转权给土地资源本身带来的一个重要而令人惊喜的益处,也是对自然环境产生的积极的生物物理溢出效应,而这在现有文献和政策制定过程中大多被忽视了。我们进一步证明,法律改革带来的土地质量改善与农业投资的增加有关,农业投资可以改善土地质量,但受制于规模经济。土地集中使得此类投资在经济上可行。我们还表明,改善土地质量的收益在不同社会经济背景的地区分布不均。未来的土地法改革应同时考虑土地质量方面的潜在效率和平等影响。
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics
American Journal of Agricultural Economics 管理科学-农业经济与政策
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9.10
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4.80%
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77
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12-24 weeks
期刊介绍: The American Journal of Agricultural Economics provides a forum for creative and scholarly work on the economics of agriculture and food, natural resources and the environment, and rural and community development throughout the world. Papers should relate to one of these areas, should have a problem orientation, and should demonstrate originality and innovation in analysis, methods, or application. Analyses of problems pertinent to research, extension, and teaching are equally encouraged, as is interdisciplinary research with a significant economic component. Review articles that offer a comprehensive and insightful survey of a relevant subject, consistent with the scope of the Journal as discussed above, will also be considered. All articles published, regardless of their nature, will be held to the same set of scholarly standards.
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