The Mechanism of Land Registration Program on Land Transfer in Rural China: Considering the Effects of Livelihood Security and Agricultural Management Incentives

Lei Xu, Shixiang Chen () and Shuliu Tian
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Lei Xu: School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Shixiang Chen: School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Shuliu Tian: School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 8, 1-25

Abstract: The key to a smooth land transfer (including land transfer-out and transfer-in) lies in the cooperation between the land supply and demand parties. Existing studies explore how land registration programs affect land transfer from a macro level or from a micro level in a certain area, but little consideration has been given to the interaction and behavioral disciplines of stakeholders. This article aims at testing the possible mechanism of the land registration program on land transfer in rural China by bridging and extending concepts from peasant theories and by employing mediation models. The empirical results reveal that the land registration program has a significant positive impact on land transfer, which is an important path in order to overcome the cooperative dilemma between land supply and demand parties. Additionally, livelihood security inhibits the positive impact of the land registration program on land transfer-out. While agricultural management incentives promote the positive impact of the land registration program on land transfer-in. Furthermore, these findings contribute to a novel perspective for evaluating land registration programs and deepen the understanding that intricate driving factors behind the decrease in the land transfer growth rate can have in rural China.

Keywords: land registration program; land transfer; behavioral disciplines; livelihood security; agricultural management incentives; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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