Agricultural tourism integration and urban-rural income gap:Taking the creation of national leisure agriculture and rural tourism demonstration counties as an example
Coordinating the integrated development of urban and rural areas is a crucial strategy for advancing rural revitalization.This study examines the impact of the agricultural tourism integration policy on the urban-rural income gap,utilizing the quasi-natural experiment of the creation of national leisure agriculture and rural tourism demonstration counties.Employing panel data from 253 prefectural-level cities nationwide,spanning from 2006 to 2021,the asymptotic double-difference model is used to empirically analyze the effects.Additionally,the study explores the underlying mechanism and regional heterogeneity of the policy's impact using mediating and moderating effect models.Findings demonstrate that the agricultural and tourism integration policy significantly reduces the urban-rural income gap in prefecture-level cities.Moreover,the conclusions remain robust after testing the model's validity with the synthetic control double-difference method and instrumental variables method to address endogeneity concerns.Mechanism analysis reveals that agritourism integration policy alleviates the urban-rural income gap by enhancing transportation infrastructure and facilitating urban-rural personnel mobility.Furthermore,the moderating effect model identifies regional heterogeneity in the reduction of the urban-rural income gap due to differing levels of economic development across regions.To effectively narrow this gap,recommendations include continued utilization of the leading role of demonstration counties,clarification of the overall positioning and core competitiveness of"agriculture + tourism"in non-demonstration counties,increased financial investment in transportation infrastructure construction to facilitate people flow between urban and rural areas,and implementation of precise and differentiated measures to fully harness the heterogeneous effects of agritourism integration on the urban-rural income gap.These efforts provide new perspectives for agricultural modernization and rural revitalization.
agritourism integrationurban-rural income gapasymptotic double-difference modelquasi-natural experimentsynthetic double-difference
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