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Hazards of Expropriation: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Rural China Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Hanan G. Jacoby
Guo Li
Scott Rozelle
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We use household data from northeast China to examine the link between investment and land tenure insecurity induced by China's system of village-level land reallocation. We quantify expropriation risk using a hazard analysis of individual plot tenures and incorporate the predicted "hazards of expropriation" into an empirical analysis of plot-level investment. Our focus is on organic fertilizer use, which has long-lasting benefits for soil quality. Although we find that higher expropriation risk significantly reduces application of organic fertilizer, a welfare analysis shows that guaranteeing land tenure in this part of China would yield only minimal efficiency gains.
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Volume (Year): 92 (2002)
Issue (Month): 5 (December)
Pages: 1420-1447
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