Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2020, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (8): 1475-1484.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2020.08.18

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Rural residential land reform and promotion of farmers' income: based on panel data of 6 pilot counties (cities, districts) with difference-in-difference analysis

ZHANG Gongwanga, ZHU Mingfenb,*   

  1. a. Department of Sociology, Hangzhou Administration College, Hangzhou 310024, China;
    b. Hangzhou Research Institute, Hangzhou Administration College, Hangzhou 310024, China
  • Received:2020-02-27 Online:2020-08-25 Published:2020-08-28

Abstract: Based on 885 households panel data from 6 pilot counties (cities, districts) of rural residential land reform, propensity score matching and difference-in-difference approach were applied to analyze the influence of rural residential land reform on farmers' income increase under the control of household fixed effect and year fixed effect, with farmers' annual per capita income and annual per capita property income as explanatory variables. It was shown that the rural residential land reform could increase farmers' annual per capita property income, but it had no significant impact on farmers' annual per capita income. In order to promote farmers' income through rural residential land reform, measures should be focused on how to promote farmer's property income. Therefore, suggestions were proposed including promoting urbanization, applying market mechanism and offering other related supporting reform measures.

Key words: rural residential land reform, farmers' income increase, difference-in-difference

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