Does the Behavior of Quitting Rural Residential Land Help Improve the Education Access of Farmers'Children:Based on the Survey of Farmers in Jinzhai County,Anhui Province and Qionglai City,Sichuan Province
Based on the micro data of 653 households in Jinzhai County,Anhui Province and Qionglai City,Sichuan Province,the ordered Probit model,propensity score matching method and mediating effect model were used.This paper empirically analyzes the influence of quitting rural residential land on children's education access of farmers and its action path,and further discusses the difference of the influence of quitting rural residential land on children's education access of different types of farmers.The results show that:the behavior of quitting rural residential land has a significant positive effect on the educational access of farmers'children,which can improve the educational access of farmers'children.This conclusion is still valid after the propensity score matching method is used to correct the selective bias.The analysis of the mechanism based on the mediating effect model shows that quitting rural residential land improves the education level of farmers'children through three ways:improving the convenience of going to school,optimizing the rural education environment and increasing family income.Considering the heterogeneity of households,the effect of quitting rural residential land on the improvement of children education of multi-child farmers was stronger than that of single-child farmers,the effect on the improvement of female children's education was stronger than that of male children,and the effect on the improvement of children's education of farmers in Jinzhai County,Anhui Province was stronger than that of Sichuan Qionglai.Finally,some suggestions were put forward to publicize the important role of quitting rural residential land in improving the educational access of farmers'children,to improve the income level of farmers after quitting rural residential land,to improve the supporting policies related to education in the implementation of the policy of quitting rural residential land,and to coordinate the allocation of urban and rural education resources.
Behavior of Quitting Rural Residential LandChildren's Education Access of Farmersthe Rural Education EnvironmentFamily Income