Research on the Influence of Land Consolidation on Farmers'Income Gap
This paper uses a survey data of 830 farmers in Shandong and Henan,adopts en-dogenous transformation model,considers the selective error caused by unobservable factors,and empirically analyzes the impact of farmland consolidation on farmers'income level,and uses Fields decomposition method to test the direction and extent of farmland consolidation on farmers'income gap.The results show that:first,based on the counterfactual hypothesis,if the farmers who participate in the farmland consolidation do not participate,their total household income will de-cline by 13.1％,that is,the farmland consolidation significantly improves the total household in-come of farmers.From the perspective of income structure,agricultural land consolidation plays a greater role in promoting agricultural income than non-agricultural income.Second,agricultural land consolidation has widened the income gap between farmers,with a contribution rate of 26.4％.Further research shows that there is a more significant"Matthew effect"in the impact of agricultural land consolidation on agricultural income,which is an important path to increase in-come inequality among farmers.This also shows that agricultural land consolidation has not a-chieved the original intention of correcting agricultural income gap,but has produced"reverse dis-tribution".Third,the insufficient participation of low-income farmers in farmland consolidation and the higher rate of return of high-income farmers in farmland consolidation are important rea-sons for farmland consolidation to expand agricultural income gap.Fourth,the rural land consolida-tion has led to the differentiation of farmers'sense of social equity at different income levels.Therefore,when considering how to increase the income of farmers through farmland consolidation,it is necessary to extend the focus of the problem from efficiency to equity,focusing on the income growth of low-income farmers who are relatively disadvantaged in farmland consolidation.
Land consolidationIncome levelIncome gapEndogenous transformation regres-sion model(ESR)Fields decomposition
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