Land Reform and Child Health in the Kyrgyz Republic
利用吉尔吉斯斯坦土地私有化改革这一自然实验，发现土地分配使0-5岁儿童的身高和体重指标显著改善，主要原因是家庭自产食物消费增加，而非收入提高。
Can the establishment of private property rights to land improve child health and nutrition outcomes? We exploit a natural experiment in the Kyrgyz Republic following the collapse of socialism, whereby the government rapidly liquidated state and collective farms containing 75% of agricultural land and distributed it to individuals, providing 99-year transferable use rights. We use household surveys collected before, during, and after the privatization reform and spatial variation in its timing to identify its health and nutrition impacts. We find that young children aged 0–5 exposed to land privatization for longer periods of time accumulated significantly greater gains in height- and weight-for-age z-scores, both critical measures of long-term child health and nutrition. Health improvements appear to be driven by increases in consumption of home-produced food rather than increased income from sale of production, likely due to underdeveloped markets. We find minimal impacts on urban-dwelling children affected only indirectly by the reform.