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1. A Global Perspective on Land Use Regulations and Housing Outcomes

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2022
   Cynthia Goytia and Eric J. Heikkila

   This paper examines the relationship between land use regulations and housing outcomes, especially housing affordability and informality. Using a unique and important database of 191 metropolitan...

2. Building the Breathable City

   What role should land value capture play in China’s ambitions to prepare for climate change?
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2022
   Alexander Lord, Erwin van der Krabben, and Guanpeng Dong

   What impact does air quality have on land values? This fundamental question is at the heart of our intuitive understanding of how cities in the industrial revolution developed. However, we know...

3. Moving towards an Inclusive Housing Policy?

   Migrants’ Access to Subsidized Housing in Urban China
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2022
   Youqin Huang and Jianyu Ren

   China is rapidly urbanizing with hundreds of millions of migrants leaving villages for cities. Due to the discriminatory Household Registration (Hukou) System, migrants have been denied urban welfare...

4. The Longer-Term Potential of Land Value Uplift: Insights from Great Britain and the Yangtze River Delta Region

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2022
   Ying Jin and Tianren Yang

   In many cities, the largest public policy interventions in infrastructure and urban development tend to target the periphery of cities. For instance, both the UK and China are keen to spread their...

5. High-speed rail, market access improvement, and land market outcomes

   Evidence from China
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2021
   Zheng Chang

   China has the most extensive high-speed rail (HSR) network in the world. This study investigated how HSR impacted the land market in China from 2004 to 2016, including land prices, supply, and...

6. Plus ça Change

   Three Decades of Fiscal Policy and Central-Local Relations in China
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2021
   Christine Wong

   In China’s decentralised fiscal system, since virtually all vital public services (education, healthcare, social welfare) are provided by local governments, a well-functioning intergovernmental...

7. Land Tenure and Children’s Health

   Evidence from China
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2021
   Li Fang and Chuanhao Tian

   Does land tenure improve children’s wellbeing? We answer this question using a natural experiment – the 2003 Land Contract Law in China, which bans land adjustments in villages. This...

8. The Restructuring of Home and Sense of Home

   Examining the socio-spatial outcomes of urban redevelopment in urban China since 2000
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2021
   Yushu Zhu and Changdong Ye

   Against the backdrop of intensified urban redevelopment with massive displacement across urban China in the early 2000s and a recent policy orientation toward micro-renewal without displacement, this...

9. Economic Effects of Land Conservation Spatial Characteristics for Climate Change Adaptation

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2021
   Seung Kyum Kim and Longfeng Wu

   Land conservation has been recognized as a multifunctional adaptive strategy to tackle climate change as it includes the ability to mitigate risk and enhance biodiversity. However, limited empirical...

10. Neighborhood Restructuring, the Built Environment, and Quality of Life in Urban China

    A Comparative Analysis
    Documentos de trabajo
    Junio 2021
    Qiang Fu, Jiaxin Gu, and Piao Han

    Has China’s urban transformation improved its urban environment in terms of quality of life? If so, how can we reconcile the influx of Chinese migrants who are seeking a better ‘...