The Effect of Rural Households Differentiation on the Non-performance Behaviors of Rural Households'Forestland Contract Management
⑴ Background——Since the 21st century,the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization in China has not only intensified the differentiation of rural households,but also brought severe challenges to the implementation of the forestland contract responsibility system of rural households in collective forest areas.It is an important premise for promoting the implementation of rural households'forestland contract responsibility sys-tem to deeply understand and grasp the non-performance behaviors of forestland contract management of heteroge-neous rural households.⑵Methods——The research data came from the research group's survey in Hunan,Jiangxi,Fujian and Yunnan provinces from July to September 2021,and a total of 400 valid questionnaires were obtained.In this pa-per,whether there is non-performance behaviors in rural households'forestland contract management was select-ed as the explained variable,the degree of rural households'differentiation was selected as the core explanatory variable,the main factors of family characteristics,household head characteristics and forest resources character-istics were selected as the control variables,the commercial capital investment in forestry production was selected as the mediating variable,and whether there is characteristic forest planting in the village was selected as the in-strumental variable.First,the Logit model and the intermediary effect model were used to empirically analyze the non-performance behaviors of rural households'forestland contract management and its influencing factors.Then,the paper compared and analyzed the different characteristics of the non-performance behaviors in forest-land contract management of rural households with high and low differentiation degrees,and the mediating effect of commercial forestry capital investment on the non-performance behaviors of ruralhouseholds'forestland con-tract management.⑶Results——First,compared with pure rural households,the probability of non-performance behaviors of forestland contract management of typeⅠpart-time rural households,typeⅡpart-time rural households and off-land rural households increased by 11.4%,17.2%and 32.1%,respectively.Second,compared with the rural households with low differentiation degree,the rural households with high differentiation degree had a more sig-nificant impact on the non-performance behaviors of rural households'forestland contract management in terms of the characteristics of the household owners and forestland resources.Third,the commercial forestry investment had a negative impact on the non-performance behaviors of rural households'forestland contract management at a significant level of 10%.⑷ Conclusions and Discussions——The differentiation of rural households has a significant positive im-pact on the non-performance behaviors of rural households'forestland contract management.The effect of differ-ent degree of rural households differentiation on the non-performance behaviors of rural households'forestland contract management is different.The differentiation of rural households will increase the commercial capital in-vestment in forestry industry,which will have a restraining effect on the non-performance behaviors of rural households'forestland contract management to a certain extent.Based on the above research conclusions,the following policy suggestions are put forward:First,establish a constraint mechanism of rural households'forest-land contract management by means of"legal constraint+contract constraint".Second,establish the incentive mechanism of different rural households'forestland contract management with economic benefits as the core driv-ing force.Third,improve and optimize forestry financial support policies and measures,and actively guide and expand forestry capital investment.
rural households differentiationcontract management of forest landnon-performance behaviorsLogit modelmediating effect