Choice of land tenure in China: The case of a county with quasi-private property rights

Abstract

This article is organized around the following themes: Section II provides a background on this important land tenure experiment as well as on the choice of the county selected for it. This is succeeded by a brief description of the data and the main findings in Section III. Section IV provides a number of hypotheses and explanatory variables employed in the regression analyses. Estimation results of the surveyed farmers' current preferences regarding property rights in land are discussed in Section V, and their changing preferences over time are examined in Section VI. The implications of the analytical findings are then summarized and concluded in Section VII.