This document summarizes a study examining how household forestry contracting influences labor allocation in rural China. The study uses survey data from 901 households in Fujian and Jiangxi provinces to analyze the relationship between forestland ownership, specific forest contract rights, and household labor supply to forestry, agriculture, and off-farm activities. Key variables included forest area, indices measuring forest use rights, transfer rights, and ability to use forests as collateral, and average contract length. Potential econometric issues addressed selection into labor activities and endogeneity of forest variables. Preliminary probit regression results were presented for off-farm and forest labor supply.