**<u>Table 1: Key parameters for villages inside and outside the Chengdu prefecture boundary</u>**

|||**Before**|||**After**||**T**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Total**|**Outside **|**Inside**|**Total**|**Outside **|**Inside**|**test**|
|**Labor shares**||||||||
|Agriculture|0.576|0.607|0.551|0.521|0.561|0.487||
|Secondary industry|0.228|0.214|0.239|0.259|0.234|0.280||
|<br>Tertiary industry|0.195|0.177|0.210|0.220|0.204|0.234||
|<br>Labor working out of village <6 months|0.158|0.154|0.162|0.185|0.181|0.189||
|Labor working out of county|0.248|0.270|0.230|0.288|0.311|0.269||
|<br>**Land endowments**||||||||
|Area of arable land per capita (mu)|1.410|1.425|1.400|1.485|1.420|1.532||
|<br>Area of residential land per capita (m<sup>2</sup>)|109|101|115|105|109|103||
|<br>Share of arable land in total area|0.472|0.440|0.496|0.476|0.435|0.506||
|Share of other agricultural land in total area|0.318|0.375|0.276|0.312|0.376|0.266||
|<br>Share of residential land in total area|0.057|0.049|0.063|0.054|0.052|0.055||
|Share of other construction land in total area|0.039|0.033|0.044|0.049|0.037|0.057||
|Share of unutilized land in total area|0.113|0.103|0.121|0.109|0.100|0.115||
|**Threats to tenure security**||||||||
|<br>Any reallocation|0.051|0.024|0.073|0.040|0.047|0.034||
|... if yes, number of reallocations|1.140|1.261|1.107|1.369|1.311|1.436||
|<br>... if yes, area involved|0.083|0.184|0.061|0.134|0.063|0.199||
|... if yes, share of households involved|0.176|0.324|0.133|0.181|0.126|0.248||
|Any expropriation|0.017|0.007|0.025|0.059|0.063|0.056|**|
|<br>... if yes, number of expropriations|1.222|1.286|1.207|1.560|1.984|1.156||
|<br>... if yes, area involved|0.080|0.020|0.085|0.065|0.058|0.071||
|<br>... if yes, share of households involved|0.145|0.085|0.158|0.145|0.176|0.117||
|**Informal transfers of arable land**||||||||
|Any informal transfer of arable land|0.215|0.230|0.201|0.312|0.290|0.330||
|<br>... if yes, share of areas transferred|0.111|0.095|0.128|0.140|0.121|0.156||
|... if yes, share of households renting out|0.100|0.081|0.120|0.144|0.118|0.163||
|<br>... if yes, share of household renting in|0.069|0.059|0.083|0.090|0.066|0.112||
|<br>... if yes, share of transfer period <=5 years|0.667|0.606|0.724|0.555|0.513|0.583||
|<br>....if yes, share with close kin|0.537|0.521|0.554|0.550|0.534|0.565||
|<br>... if yes, share with outsiders|0.254|0.249|0.264|0.325|0.331|0.314||
|<br>... if yes, share without rental|0.568|0.543|0.593|0.601|0.606|0.597||
|**Formal transfers of arable land**||||||||
|Dummy: Any formal transfer|0.043|0.013|0.069|0.124|0.058|0.180|**|
|<br>... if yes, # of formal transfers|1.391|1.077|1.444|1.441|1.232|1.498||
|<br>... if yes, share of area transferred|0.071|0.073|0.071|0.095|0.063|0.102||
|... if yes, share of households involved|0.147|0.161|0.144|0.140|0.109|0.149||
|<br>... if yes, share not mediated by local government|0.707|0.923|0.671|0.677|0.732|0.662||
|... if yes, share of transfer period <=5 years|0.000|0.000|0.000|0.066|0.154|0.042||
|<br>... if yes, share of transfer period 6-30 years|0.769|0.750|0.772|0.786|0.642|0.825||
|<br>... if yes, share of transfer period >30 years|0.231|0.250|0.228|0.148|0.204|0.133||
|<br>**Formal transfers of construction land**||||||||
|Dummy: Any transfer of construction land|0.014|0.018|0.010|0.032|0.026|0.036||
|<br>... if yes, # of construction land transfers|1.103|1.059|1.167|1.493|1.200|1.667||
|<br>... if yes, area transferred/constr. land area|0.062|0.023|0.098|0.128|0.078|0.153||
|... if yes share of transfer period>=30 years|0.586|0.647|0.500|0.644|0.660|0.634||
|,<br>**Enterprises**||||||||
|Dummy: Any enterprise|0.044|0.039|0.048|0.068|0.049|0.084||
|<br>... if yes # of enterprises|1.108|1.053|1.145|1.431|1.617|1.340||
|,<br>... if yes, share in agriculture|<br>0.236|<br>0.235|<br>0.236|<br>0.446|<br>0.278|<br>0.525||
|<br>... if yes, share in secondary sector|0.478|0.529|0.445|0.308|0.487|0.224||
|<br>... if yes, share in tertiary sector|0.287|0.235|0.318|0.246|0.235|0.251||
|**Geo variables**<br>||||||||
|Travelling time to Chengdu (hour)||||1.43|1.56|1.32||
|<br>Euclidean distance to Chengdu(km)|52.67|55.75|50.09|52.67|55.75|50.09||

_Source_ : Own computation from 2014 Chengdu village survey based on 529 villages. As explained in the text, the t-test is for the hypothesis of parallel trends pre-reform; stars indicate the confidence level with which this hypothesis can be rejected as follows: *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1.

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