工程确权能否推动小型农田水利设施的善治——基于河南省调查数据的多期双重差分检验

Can the Confirmation of Project Rights Promote the Good Governance of Small-scale Farmland and Water Conservancy Facilities?A Time-varying Difference-In-Differences Test Based on Evidence from Henan Province

产权制度改革是破解小型农田水利设施"组织难、投入难、管理难"的可行理论方案,但其实践效果仍有待检验。本文使用河南省219宗小型农田水利设施的4期非平衡面板数据,基于多期双重差分法分析了工程确权对小型农田水利设施治理绩效的影响。研究结果表明:工程确权对小型农田水利设施治理绩效具有显著而稳健的促进作用,即使排除了"试点效应"的干扰,这一实证结果依旧显著成立;工程确权对小型农田水利设施治理绩效的促进作用依设施类型、产权配置形式、管护责任归属、制裁机制、激励传导机制的差异而存在异质性;"工程确权-要素投入水平-治理绩效"的作用路径未通过显著性检验,但"工程确权-要素配置效率-治理绩效"的作用路径通过了显著性检验。

The reform of project rights system is a good theoretical solution to solve the difficulties in the organization,investment,and management of small-scale farmland and water conservancy facilities,but its practical effects remain to be tested.Using the four-period unbalanced panel data from Henan Province,this article examines the impact of the confirmation of project rights on governance performance of small-scale farmland and water conservancy facilities.The results show that the project rights confirmation has a significant and stable promotion effect on the governance performance of small-scale farmland and water conservancy facilities.The policy effect of project rights confirmation is heterogeneous,depending on the type of facilities,the form of property rights allocation,the ownership of management and protection responsibilities,the form of sanction mechanisms,and the form of incentive transmission mechanisms.The effect path of "project rights confirmation-factors input level-governance performance" failed the significance test but the effect path of "project rights confirmation-factors allocation efficiencygovernance performance" passed the significance test.