Property rights and land quality
Property rights and land quality
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DOI：
10.1111/ajae.12440
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发表时间：
2023-10
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Haoyang Li;Jiong Zhu
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作者：
Haoyang Li;Jiong Zhu
本文提出了一项新颖的研究，探讨土地转让合法化的产权法改革对土地质量的影响。使用中国独特的县级土地侵蚀数据，我们表明，正式合法化土地转让显着减少土地侵蚀。这是一个重要的和令人惊讶的好处，一个安全的土地转让权的土地资源本身和一个积极的生物物理溢出到自然环境，在现有的文献和决策过程中基本上被忽视。我们进一步证明，土地质量的改善带来的法律改革是与农业投资，可以提高土地质量，但受规模经济的增加。土地集中使得这种投资在经济上是可行的。我们还发现，土地质量改善效益在不同社会经济背景的地区分布不均匀。未来的土地法改革应考虑到土地质量方面潜在的效率和平等影响。
This paper presents a novel study examining the effect of a property rights law reform that legalized land transfers on land quality. Using unique Chinese county‐level land erosion data, we show that formally legalizing land transfers significantly reduces land erosion. This is an important and surprising benefit of a secure land transfer right to the land resource itself and a positive biophysical spillover to the natural environment that is largely ignored in the existing literature and in the policy making process. We further demonstrate that the land quality improvement brought by the law reform was associated with an increase in farming investments that can improve land quality but are subject to economies of scale. Land concentration made such investments economically feasible. We also show that the land quality‐improving benefits are unevenly distributed across regions with different socioeconomic backgrounds. Future land law reforms should consider both the potential efficiency and equality implications in terms of land quality.