from China, sector-level simulations show that eliminating the non-productive value would significantly increase the …

from agriculture to non-agriculture and from rural to urban areas. We combine rich household and individual-level panel … data from China and an equilibrium quantitative framework that features the sorting of workers across locations and … substantial negative effects on agricultural productivity and structural change, raising the share of households operating farms …

The overall goal of our paper is to estimate the impact of China's land rights on farm investment incentives and …