The Impact of New Infrastructure Construction on Farmers'Planting Structure
This paper takes the"Broadband China"pilot policy as a quasi-natural experiment and constructs staggered difference-in-differences model based on 2012-2018 China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey(CLDS)data to examine the impact of new infrastructure construction on farmers'planting structure.The results show that the construction of new infrastructure significantly increases the proportion of cash crops planted by farmers in the pilot areas with an average increase of approximately 3.6 percentage points.A series of tests,including the instrumental variable method,heterogeneity-robust estimator,exclusion of special samples,and exclusion of other policy interferences,confirm the robustness of the results.Heterogeneity analysis shows that the promotion effect of new infrastructure construction on cropping structure adjustment is more pronounced for farmers in low education levels,without elderly members,and in Eastern China.Further mechanism analysis reveals that new infrastructure construction mainly affects farmers'planting structure through reducing information asymmetry,increasing farmers'social capital,and alleviating financing constraints.These findings indicate that the construction of new infrastructures has brought farmers the opportunity to interface with modernized markets.Policies should continue to promote the construction of new infrastructure in rural areas,accelerate the integration of new infrastructure and agricultural production and management methods,and guide farmers to rationally allocate household production factors,so as to make the dividends of informatization benefit more farming households.
New Infrastructure ConstructionPlanting StructureStaggered DIDBroadband China
万方数据
维普
