PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kung, James Kai-sing
TI  - Do Secure Land Use Rights Reduce Fertility? The Case of Meitan County in China
AID  - 10.3368/le.82.1.36
DP  - 2006 Feb 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 36--55
VI  - 82
IP  - 1
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/82/1/36.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/82/1/36.full
SO  - Land Econ2006 Feb 01; 82
AB  - Based on the belief that collective landownership is pro-natalist, the Chinese government experimented in a remote southwestern county (Meitan) in 1987 with the practice of freezing land reallocations in response to demographic change for twenty years. Premising on the norm of a two-children family in rural China, evidence suggests that demand for the third child is attributable to strong son preference. Neither secured land rights nor family planning policy can curb such a proclivity. The experiment has, however, stimulated an active land rental market, which may have long-term profound implications for the development of private land rights and fertility behavior. (JEL J13, Q15, P48)