Hazards of Expropriation: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Rural China
利用中国东北农户数据，分析土地调整导致的产权不稳定如何影响农户投资，发现征用风险显著减少有机肥使用，但保障产权仅带来微小效率提升。
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.