@article{Xie:199821,
      recid = {199821},
      author = {Xie, L. and Berck, P. and Xu, J.},
      title = {The Effect on Forestation of the Collective Forest Tenure  Reform in China},
      journal = {Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the Biennial  Meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics},
      address = {2012-05},
      number = {1333-2016-103841},
      pages = {2},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {To alleviate rural poverty, stimulate investment in  forests, and improve forest conservation, the
Chinese  government enacted a policy leading to small individual  holdings of forest lands that
previously were administered  by villages. Using data collected from 288 villages in  eight
provinces over three years, this paper measures the  effect of the reform on forestation. Because
villages had  to vote on whether the reform would take effect, we are  able to identify the causal
effect of the reform by using  an IV estimator based on the countywide decision to offer  the
reform package. We find an increase in forestation of  7.87% of the forest land in the year of the
reform.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/199821},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.199821},
}