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<p>Public data openness (PDO) is increasingly viewed as a key instrument of digital governance, yet its impact on factor market governance remains unclear. This work examines whether and how PDO affects land governance using panel data for 284 Chinese cities from 2007 to 2023. Exploiting the staggered introduction of public data open platforms as a quasi-natural experiment, we employ a multi-period difference-in-differences approach. The results show that PDO significantly influences urban land governance through changes in land price variation and land supply structure. The results remain robust across alternative specifications, endogeneity checks, and tests excluding the influence of contemporaneous land policies. We further find that data quality and the disclosure of economically relevant datasets play a critical role in amplifying these effects. This work provides new evidence that digital transparency can improve the governance of traditional production factors, highlighting the role of data as an institutional mechanism shaping resource allocation.</p>

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Governing land in the digital era: public data openness and land governance patterns

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    2026年8月4日

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  • Fenghui Sun,
  • Hengzhou Xu

摘要

Public data openness (PDO) is increasingly viewed as a key instrument of digital governance, yet its impact on factor market governance remains unclear. This work examines whether and how PDO affects land governance using panel data for 284 Chinese cities from 2007 to 2023. Exploiting the staggered introduction of public data open platforms as a quasi-natural experiment, we employ a multi-period difference-in-differences approach. The results show that PDO significantly influences urban land governance through changes in land price variation and land supply structure. The results remain robust across alternative specifications, endogeneity checks, and tests excluding the influence of contemporaneous land policies. We further find that data quality and the disclosure of economically relevant datasets play a critical role in amplifying these effects. This work provides new evidence that digital transparency can improve the governance of traditional production factors, highlighting the role of data as an institutional mechanism shaping resource allocation.