- 12 Jun
- 2025
The effects of improved land rights on land markets, land use efficiency, and employment: Evidence from the 2013 Vietnam land law
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Title: The effects of improved land rights on land markets, land use efficiency, and employment: Evidence from the 2013 Vietnam land law
Presenter: Dr. Tram Hoang, Michigan State University
Time: 11:00 AM (Time in Vietnam), Thursday, June 12, 2025
Location: Room B1-1001, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh city, 279 Nguyen Tri Phuong St, Ward 5, Dist 10, HCMC
This paper investigates the impact of increased tenure security on land transactions and the ensuing productive efficiency and its spillover effects on the labor. Vietnam’s 2013 Land Law extends the lease term for usufruct rights for annual land from 20 years to 50 years, and allows for difference-in-differences (DID) identification using perennial land as control for annual land. Plot-level DID results reveal that annual plots are 3 (or 5) percentage points more likely to be leased out (or sold) as a consequence of the law. This result is in line with the expectation that the heightened security generated by the law is a supply factor affecting the supply of land. As both rental and sale markets are found to transfer land from less productive to more productive farmers, the law is expected to enhance land use efficiency. Household-level analysis shows that the law is associated with a shift from self-employed farm work to wage employment, especially agriculture-related wage work that is closer to home. Given these findings, the study suggests that the law can be a low-cost tool in increasing land market participation and production efficiency with some effects on the labor market.
About author
I am an economics researcher with a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Albion College and a Ph.D. in Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics from Michigan State University. I have previously worked as a research consultant at the World Bank and an instructor at Michigan State University, teaching Ecological Economics and Statistical Methods. I specialize in Development Economics, with special research interests in agricultural household models, poverty, and gender inequality.
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