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1. The Fiscal Impact of Municipal Administrative Center Relocation

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 2023
   Min Su, Can Chen, and Cathy Yang Liu

   The relocation of administrative centers is an important policy instrument in China, empowering cities to promote urban economic growth, strengthen public finance, and improve public service...

2. Fiscal Self-Sufficiency, Debt Limits, and Fiscal Sustainability in China’s Emerging Municipal Bond Market

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2022
   Yu Shi , Qing Li , and Robert Bland

   China’s municipal bond market suffers from a tension between centralized policymaking by the national government and the decentralized implementation of those policies by subnational...

3. Urban Development and Land Policy Reform in China

   Learning from Lincoln Institute-Funded Working Papers
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Fevereiro 2024
   Ayden Chi

   Since China’s economic liberalization reforms took off in 1978, various urban and land policy issues have emerged on the local and national levels. This paper briefly examines issues around...

4. China's Policy to Limit Use of Public-Private Partnerships by Municipalities to Finance Capital Improvements

   A Regression Discontinuity Design Analysis of the Fiscal Impact
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2023
   Robert Bland, Jingran Sun, and Yu Shi

   China’s rapid urbanization in the past four decades combined with the national government’s ambitious goals for economic growth have pressured public officials in prefectural cities to...

5. China’s Shifting Demographic Geography

   Insights from the 2020 Census
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Fevereiro 2023
   Douglas Webster, Jianming Cai, Larissa Muller, and Feifei Zhang

   This monograph identifies key changes (trends, abrupt changes) in the 21st Century spatial distribution of the Chinese population, based primarily on absolute and relative changes between the 2010 (...

6. A Day in the Life

   Vídeos e Multimídia
   Outubro 2022

   What does the work of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy look like on the ground? We outfitted several team members and partners with 360-degree cameras and asked them to visually share the places...

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

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 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...

8. Plus ça Change

   Three Decades of Fiscal Policy and Central-Local Relations in China
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 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...

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

   A Comparative Analysis
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 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 ‘...

10. Land Tenure and Children’s Health

    Evidence from China
    Documentos de Trabalho
    Junho 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...