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Property Rights Reform to Support China's Rural–Urban Integration: Village‐Level Evidence from the Chengdu Experiment

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  • Klaus Deininger
  • Songqing Jin
  • Shouying Liu
  • Ting Shao
  • Fang Xia

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As part of a national experiment, in 2008, Chengdu prefecture launched a series of property rights reforms, among them complete registration of all land and measures to ease transferability and eliminate labour market restrictions. A comparison of villages inside and outside the prefecture's border using a difference‐in‐difference approach suggests that the reforms have reduced administrative reallocations; aligned land use closer to economic incentives, mainly through market transfers; and stimulated enterprise startups. These results, most of which are more pronounced for villages closer to Chengdu city, illuminate the potential gains from factor market reform.

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  • Klaus Deininger & Songqing Jin & Shouying Liu & Ting Shao & Fang Xia, 2019. "Property Rights Reform to Support China's Rural–Urban Integration: Village‐Level Evidence from the Chengdu Experiment," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 81(6), pages 1214-1251, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:obuest:v:81:y:2019:i:6:p:1214-1251
    DOI: 10.1111/obes.12306
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    1. Meng, Fei & Chand , Satish & Huybers, Twan, 2024. "Land Tenure Arrangements and Rural-Urban Migration in China: Evidence From Shandong and Hebei Province," Journal of Economic Development, The Economic Research Institute, Chung-Ang University, vol. 49(3), pages 107-131, September.
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    5. Qirui Li, 2020. "Resilience Thinking as a System Approach to Promote China’s Sustainability Transitions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-27, June.
    6. Gao, Xuwen & Shi, Xinjie & Fang, Shile, 2021. "Property rights and misallocation: Evidence from land certification in China," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 147(C).
    7. Klaus Deininger & Songqing Jin & Shouying Liu & Fang Xia, 2020. "Property rights reform to support China’s rural ‐ urban integration: household‐level evidence from the Chengdu experiment," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 64(1), pages 30-54, January.

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