Perceptions of Land Tenure Security in Rural China: The Impact of Land Reallocations and Certification |
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| Authors: | Guangcheng Ren Xueqin Zhu Nico Heerink Ekko van Ierland |
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| Institution: | 1. Section Economics, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands;2. China Centre for Land Policy Research &3. College of Public Administration, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China |
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| Abstract: | AbstractTenure security is commonly recognized as an important factor in stimulating long-term investments in land. Recent studies suggest that a distinction between legal, actual and perceived tenure security needs to be made in analyzing tenure security. This study discusses the relationships between legal, actual and perceived land tenure security in rural China, and empirically examines the impact of actual on perceived land tenure security by applying Probit models to household and village survey data collected in four provinces. Using household expectations about the absence of land reallocations within the next five years as the dependent variable, we find that tenure security is positively affected by the possession of land certificates in villages that periodically reallocated land but not in villages that did not do so. The estimated impact is larger for land certificates issued in the new round of land certification than for land certificates that were issued earlier. |
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| Keywords: | Household perceptions land certificates land tenure security probit model rural China |
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