土地权能拓展与农民收入增长——来自农地确权的证据

Rural Land Property Rights Expansion and Growth of Farmers’Income:Evidences from Confirmation of Farmland Rights

文章从农村土地权能拓展的视角理解中国农民收入增长,并运用2005—2017年的县级面板数据和双重差分模型进行计量检验。结果发现,土地权能拓展政策是中国农村居民人均收入增长的重要原因。从影响机制来看,该政策通过农村劳动力非农转移促进机制、投资增加反馈机制和信贷便利传导机制等来促进农民收入增长。从异质性来看,该政策在欠发达地区对收入增长的促进效应较弱,应根据区域差异性有针对性的提高政策有效实施所依赖的经济环境和制度质量。研究结果有助于总结凝练实现中国农村居民增收的制度经验,为农村居民收入可持续提高和探寻新的增长点提供重要借鉴。

This paper explains the growth of farmers’income in China from the perspective of rural land property rights expansion and conducts a variable inspection by employing the county-level panel data from 2004 to 2017 and the DID method.The results show that rural land property rights expansion is an important reason for the average per capita income growth in rural China.From the perspective of the affecting mechanism,this policy promotes farmers’income growth through non-agricultural transferring of the rural labor force,increasing the feed-back mechanism and the credit facility transmission mechanismwith investment,etc..From the perspective of heterogeneity,the income increasing effect of this policy is relatively weaker in the underdeveloped areas,which implies that we should improve the economic environment and institutional quality according to the regional differences,on which the improvement of the targeted effective implementation of the policy is depended.The findings of this paper are helpful to summarize the institutional experience of the residences’income growth in rural China,and provide important references for the sustainable improvement of rural residents’income and exploring new growth points.