Does Rural Human Capital Promote Farmers'Common Prosperity?
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,the perfect ending of poverty alleviation and the realization of"double exceedance"of farmers'income growth have significantly improved the urban-rural in-come gap.The internal gap is an important dimension of the income gap.Narrowing the internal income gap in rural ar-eas,like the income gap between urban and rural areas,is also an essential part of achieving common prosperity.Based on the CRERFS2021 survey data,this paper explores the path of increasing farmers'income and reducing the gap from the perspective of rural human capital through RIF regression analysis.The research finds that the change of rural hu-man capital contributes to both"prosperity"and"sharing".It not only improves the income of farmers,but also increa-ses the income of low-income farmers more than that of middle-income and high-income farmers,becoming the key fac-tor to narrow the income gap within rural areas;By decomposing different sources of income,it is found that rural hu-man capital has an impact on the income of farmers mainly through wage income,and has no significant impact on the income change of other channels;Compared with other types of capital,the impact of human capital is more inclusive,becoming the"capital of the poor"that can better improve the situation of low-income farmers;Rural labor migration is an important condition to break the urban-rural dual system that restricts human capital to play the role of income dis-tribution of farmers,which stimulates the income increase effect of rural human capital.Finally,some suggestions are put forward to realize common prosperity from the aspects of developing rural education,cultivating high-quality farm-ers and encouraging labor mobility.
rural human capitalcommon prosperityinternal income gaplow-income farmers