Labor Input,Factor Endowment and Separability Test of Farmers'Behavior:An Empirical Study Based on Plot Level Data of Rice Farmers in Southern China
The combination of production and consumption is an important feature of farm household.Whether farmers' production and consumption are separable or not has become the basic premise of peasant household economic models,which directly affects the conclusions of farmer behavior analysis and the feasibility of policy suggestions.By constructing a model of farm household,this paper analyzes the separable and inseparable characteristics of farm household behavior under different factor market conditions from the perspective of the relationship between farmers'labor input level in agricultural production and the household's human and land endowment.On this basis,this paper makes an empirical test of the separability of farmers'behavior by using the mixed cross-sectional data of rice farmers'plot level survey in southern China in 2015 and 2019.The results show that the current rice farmers'behavior in southern China presents separable characteristics,and the results remain robust after dealing with endogenous variables,replacing core explanatory variables,and replacing explained variables.Further analysis shows that as the labor market becomes more perfect,farmers'behavior appears more separable.Different from previous research on the separability of farmers'behavior from the perspective of labor allocation,this study verifies the separability of farmers from the relationship between labor input intensity and factor endowment,and verifies it based on the first-hand survey data at the plot level.It provides a new research perspective and empirical evidence for the research on identifying the specific situations in which farmers'behavior is separable or inseparable according to the factor market.
separability testlabor inputfactor marketrice farmersfarm household model
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