Rural institutional innovation in China encompassed changes in land tenure arrangements and commodity pricing, and their effects hinged on how they were carried out. Properly implemented, the incentive structure would improve, forest production would increase, and thus producers and consumers...

Aiming to alleviate rural poverty, stimulate investment in forests, and improve forest conservation, the Chinese government set forth a policy leading to small private holdings of previously village administered forest lands. Using data collected from 288 villages in eight provinces in three...