Efficiency of Land Allocation through Tenancy Markets: Evidence from China

By Shingo Kimura, K. Otsuka, Tetsushi Sonobe, Scott Rozelle. Economic development and cultural change, 2011

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Tenancy markets provide an opportunity to trade land between labor-scarce farm households and labor-abundant households. In China and other rapidly growing countries in Asia where rural to urban migration is becoming active, facilitating well-functioning tenancy markets is important to increase farm size and farmer’s income. In China, however, individual land rights are weak and in many communities land may be reallocated by village leaders to other households if it is rented out. We hypothesize that the risk of expropriation of rented-out land is a major constraint on land rental transactions in China. We find empirical evidence in support of this hypothesis using farm household data.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Soil Science, Urban Studies

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In Gender Studies

1. T. Jayne
2. Jeffrey M. Riedinger
3. Hui Wang
4. Songqing Jin

In Soil Science

1. T. Jayne
2. K. Otsuka
3. Songqing Jin
4. Rie Muraoka
5. Hui Wang
6. Jeffrey M. Riedinger
7. K. Deininger
8. M. Muyanga

In Urban Studies

1. T. Jayne
2. Rie Muraoka
3. K. Otsuka
4. Songqing Jin
5. M. Muyanga
6. K. Deininger

Citations in the corpus

• Land Rental Markets in Kenya: Implications for Efficiency, Equity, Household Income, and Poverty (2013, background): “These types of transaction costs are especially high in environments where land rights are not secure (Vranken and Swinnen 2006; Macours, de Janvry, and Sadoulet 2010) and where land transfer is restricted (Kimura et al. 2011; Deininger and Jin 2005).”
• Presidential Address at 27th International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil: Food Insecurity, Income Inequality, and the Changing Comparative Advantage in World Agriculture (2012, background): “Although the Chinese government has strengthened individual land rights (Kung 1995; Yao 2000), it appears that the provision of land rights is insufficient to achieve efficient resource allocation (Kimura et al. 2011).”
• Land Access, Land Rental and Food Security: Evidence from Kenya (2014, background): “…markets have been found to be a major way −- if not the only way −- for enabling land-poor households to access land (see Jin and Deininger, 2009 and Kimura et al., 2011 for evidence on China; Deininger and Jin, 2008 on Vietnam; Deininger et al., 2008 on India; Deininger et al., 2011, and…”
• The future of small farms in Asia (2016, unknown): “Yet the average farm size remained at 0.6 hectares in 2010, increasing only by 0.05 hectares per year since 2000, even though land rental markets have become increasingly active (Kimura et al., 2011; Huang et al., 2012).”
• Land documents, tenure security and land rental development: Panel evidence from China (2015, background): “However, for reasons including insecurity of land rights, land transactions were very limited before the 1990s (Deininger & Jin, 2005; Kimura et al., 2011; Kung, 2002; Zhang, Ma, & Xu, 2004).”