Do Socialized Agricultural Machinery Services Reduce Income Gap Within Rural Areas?
Reducing rural income gap is the key to alleviating relative poverty and realizing com-mon prosperity.Based on the 2009-2020 National Rural Fixed Observation Point Survey data,this pa-per empirically examines the impact of socialized agricultural machinery services on rural income gap us-ing the regression and decomposition of the re-centered influence function(RIF).The results show that socialized agricultural machinery services are conducive to raising the incomes of low-and middle-income farmers,and the income-raising effect on low-income farmers is greater,which in turn reduces rural in-come gap.The alleviating effect of socialized agricultural machinery services on the income gap within ru-ral areas exhibits regional heterogeneity,with a greater effect on the eastern region and a smaller one on the northeastern region.The further decomposition results show that the coefficient effect is the main fac-tor in the socialized agricultural machinery services reducing rural income gap,explaining 124.24%of the income gap.Tthe test of the impact mechanism shows that socialized agricultural machinery services re-duce rural income gap by promoting rural labor force transfer.Therefore,we should actively promote the development of socialized machinery services,improve the support policies of socialized agricultural ma-chinery services for low-income groups,and give full play to the positive role of socialized agricultural ma-chinery services in alleviating rural income gap.
socialized agricultural machinery servicesrural income gapcommon prosperityRIF regression
NETL
NSTL
万方数据
维普
