Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India: Evidence from the Industrial Areas Program
研究了印度卡纳塔克邦工业区项目将农业用地重新规划为工业用地的影响，发现该政策显著促进了企业创建和就业增长，并带动周边地区劳动力从农业向非农业转移。
Abstract Zoning laws that restrict rural land to agricultural production pose an important institutional barrier to industrial development. We study the effects of the Industrial Areas (IA) program in Karnataka, India, which rezoned agricultural land for industrial use, but without the economic incentives common with other place-based policies. We find that the program caused a large increase in firm creation and employment in villages overlapping the IAs. Moreover, the surrounding areas experienced spillover effects, with workers shifting from agricultural to non-agricultural employment, and entrepreneurs establishing numerous small-scale service sector and agricultural firms.