农民合作社是有效的益贫组织吗?

Are Farmers’ Cooperatives Effective Pro-poor Organizations?

本文从农民合作社的组织特性出发,分析了贫困户加入合作社改善其经济状况、提高其生活满意度的机理,然后利用2017年"精准扶贫精准脱贫百村调查"的3216户贫困户数据,使用可处理内生性的扩展回归模型,估计了贫困户加入合作社对其收入和生活满意度的影响。研究结果发现:加入合作社可以让贫困户年家庭人均纯收入增加872元,且对实际贫困户的增收效应更大;加入合作社可以显著提高贫困户的生活满意度,且对实际贫困户的提升作用更强;社会交往是加入合作社影响贫困户生活满意度的中介变量,可以解释加入合作社对贫困户生活满意度影响的17.37%。因此,政策制定应更加重视农民合作社的多维益贫性。

Based on the organizational characteristics of farmers’cooperatives,this article analyzes the mechanism of joining farmers’cooperatives to improve poor farmer households’economic conditions and life satisfaction.It then examines the impacts of joining farmers’cooperatives on poor farmer households’income and life satisfaction by utilizing an extended regression model with a survey dataset of 3216 poor farmer households in 2017"Survey on Precise Poverty Alleviation in 100 Villages"in China.The empirical results show that joining farmers’cooperatives can not only enhance the expected annual per capita income of poor households by 872 Yuan but also improve their life satisfaction,and the effects are more pronounced for poor households with lower income.In addition,the study finds that social interaction is an intermediary variable that can account for 17.37 percent of the impact of joining farmers’cooperatives on the life satisfaction of poor households.So policymakers should pay more attention to the multidimensional pro-poor effect of farmers’cooperatives.