%0 Report
        %A Zhang, Jian
%A Mishra, Ashok K.
%A Zhu, Peixin
        %T Land Markets and Labor Productivity: Empirical Evidence from China
        %D 2023
        %8 2023 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 16575
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16575
        %X This study investigates the impact of the land rental market (LRM) on labor productivity in rural China. Particular attention is given to farm and non-farm labor productivity. Using 2012 household-level data and a multinomial endogenous switching treatment regression (MESTR) technique, we find that rural households renting-in farmland increased labor productivity in the farm sector by about 55%, while labor productivity in the non-farm sector decreased by about 6%. We also find that rural households renting-out farmland had lower labor productivity in both the farm and non-farm sectors by 13% and 9%, respectively. More family labor transferred from the farm to the non-farm sector after renting-out land.
        %K land rental market
%K labor productivity
%K farm sector
%K non-farm sector