Rural-Urban Income Distribution Effects of Agricultural Mechanization from the Perspective of Common Prosperity
Continuously raising the income of rural residents and constantly narrowing the relative and absolute gap between urban and rural incomes is the key to realizing the goal of common prosperity.Based on the regional panel data from 1997 to 2021,this paper explores the impact of agricultural mechanization on the relative and absolute gaps between rural and urban incomes and its mechanism of action,using the comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation,planting and harvesting as a measure of the level of agricultural mechani-zation.The results show that,first,agricultural mechanization can significantly narrow the relative and absolute urban-rural income gap.The conclusion still holds after the endogeneity test and other robustness tests.Second,the direct cause of agricultural mechanization to nar-row the urban-rural income gap is the increase of rural residents'income.Further mechanism testing indicates that agricultural mechanization can raise rural incomes and narrow the ur-ban-rural income gap through technological progress,labor reallocation and land realloca-tion effects.Third,the heterogeneity analysis shows that both large and medium-sized and small agricultural machinery contribute to narrowing the relative urban-rural income gap.The difference is that large and medium-sized agricultural machinery significantly narrows the absolute urban-rural income gap,while small agricultural machinery amplifies the abso-lute urban-rural income gap;compared to hilly and mountainous areas,agricultural mecha-nization in plain areas is more capable of narrowing the relative and absolute urban-rural gap.The policy implication is to continue to implement and optimize the agricultural machinery purchase subsidy policy,continuously increase the R&D and innovation of agricultural ma-chinery,constantly optimize the structure of agricultural machinery and equipment,accelerate the machine-suitable transformation of farmland in hilly and mountainous areas,and promote the transformation and upgrading of agricultural machinery development to the whole process of comprehensive,high-quality and efficiency,so as to give full play to the positive role of agricultural mechanization in improving urban-rural income distribution.
Agricultural MechanizationRural-urban Income GapRural Residents'In-comeCommon Prosperity
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维普
