Weak property rights over land prevent efficient allocation of production factors in the developing world. Farmers lacking titles secure access to the land by providing evidence of productive use. The “use it or lose it” principle leads to a thin land rental market and a misallocation of...

Weak property rights over land prevent efficient allocation of production factors in the developing world. Farmers who lack title secure access to the land they work by providing evidence of productive use. The ``use it or lose it'' principle leads to a thin land rental market and a...

Chapter 1. Outline of the Institutions for Farmland Transactions in Traditional China -- Chapter 2. The Types of Farmland Property Rights -- Chapter 3. The Farmland Property Transaction System: A Study Centering on Dian -- Chapter 4. The Transformation of Farmland Rights Transactions from the...

The most notable, or at least the most noted, form of property evolution has been the transfer of exclusive rights from collectives to individuals and vice versa, such as the farm collectivization in Soviet Union and the establishment of the People's Communes in Mao's China and their reversals....

The landscape of China's rural land market has been changed by several significant land right reforms since 1970s. It is always of great interest to both the government and the public to gauge the effectiveness of these reforms. We address this question by investigating the impact of a recent...