diff --git a/docs/src/documentation.md b/docs/src/documentation.md index bd394e9..8941fc9 100644 --- a/docs/src/documentation.md +++ b/docs/src/documentation.md @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ Modules = [ReplicationPackage_KexinCHEN_JinxuMI] - -# Summary of the Paper
+# Summary of the Paper + The paper's primary purpose is to assess the effects of a significant land reform on agricultural productivity in the Philippines. The 1988 Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program put a ceiling on the quantity of private land holdings, leading to a drop in farm size and productivity. Using the Decennial Agricultural Census Data and Philippines Cash Cropping Project survey data, the authors can construct balanced panel data that tracks the farm-level changes before and after the reform, controlling for farmer ability and location. The Philippines' 1988 Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law put a 5-hectare ceiling on individual land ownership. The redistribution at fair market value was implemented by the end of 1990. The data show that land redistribution led to a -11.6 \% decrease in land productivity from 1990 to 1993. Even though the ceiling was not perfectly implemented, this study still discovered a significant change in farm size. The share of small farms almost doubled while the share of more giant farms shrank. This phenomenon was verified by farm-level survey data as well.