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Forest and Land Management Location: D-104 Session Chair: Charles Palmer, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | |
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From Flameout to Reignition: Policy Effectiveness and Retraction Scarring in China's Forest Tenure Reform 1: Tsinghua University, China; 2: Peking University, China Property-rights reforms require not only a transfer of formal rights, but also credible expectations that those rights will be honored. This paper studies that problem in China’s Collective Forest Tenure Reform (CFTR), using grid-level satellite measures of gross primary productivity and staggered reform timing. CFTR raises forest productivity by about 5 to 7 percent. The gains are visible in stacked difference-in-differences estimates and in a boundary comparison, and the mechanism evidence points to sustained local management effort rather than one-time environmental investment. We then study whether a past policy reversal weakens later reform implementation. Areas more exposed to the 1987 Greater Khingan fire, which preceded a retreat from earlier forest reforms, show lower subsequent management responses and more volatile investment behavior. The results suggest that policy credibility is a productive input in environmental and land reforms. | |