Housing reform in China is moving towards privatization or marketization of public housing. To be successful, the reform requires that policy makers allow housing rent differentials to arise and permit reform in wages parallel to reform in rent. This paper analyses the effects of occupational...

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the structure of land prices both before and after land conservation occurs. Using data describing 12 years of vacant land transactions in Buncombe County, North Carolina, we find that fee simple conservations, as opposed to conservation easements,...

We examine conservation activity in western North Carolina, where state income tax credits from land conservation have been available since 1983. Six land trusts, including the Nature Conservancy, undertake conservations in both fee simple and in conservation easement over a twelve year period....