 Land rights and investment incentives: Evidence from China’s Latest Rural Land Titling ProgramNan Zhou, Wenli Cheng and Longyao Zhang Land Use Policy, 2022, vol. 117, issue C Abstract: We compile a panel dataset from official surveys of 2010–2015 to study how China’s latest rural land titling program affected households’ long-term agricultural investment. Applying the DD method and the PSM-DD method, we find that the rural land titling program had a positive effect on households’ land-related investment (measured by the application of organic fertiliser). In addition, we present 3 pieces of evidence which support the view that the positive investment effect was due to enhanced incentives as a result of improved land tenure security. First, the investment effect was significant for land-related investment, but not significant for non-land-related investment (measured by the purchase of agricultural machinery). Second, the investment effect was stronger for the households that saw a greater improvement in their land tenure security. Third, the investment effect on households’ own contracted land was stronger than that on their rented-in land, unless the households had long-term (i.e., more than one year) written rental contracts for their rented-in land. Keywords: Land titling; Land tenure security; Agricultural investment; Investment effect of land titling (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:lauspo:v:117:y:2022:i:c:s0264837722001533 DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106126 Access Statistics for this article Land Use Policy is currently edited by Jaap Zevenbergen More articles in Land Use Policy from Elsevier |
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