数字禀赋、农地流转权能与农民收入福利

Digital Endowment,Farmland Transfer Rights and Farmers’ Income and Welfare

现代数字信息融入传统农业生产时,能更有效地发挥农村土地功能、促进农民持续增收吗?本文通过拓展Todaro模型,结合Theil指数构建中国城乡二元经济结构数理模型,基于信息不对称视角进行分析,研究发现:数字禀赋充分、农地流转权能完善可以显著提升农民收入与福利水平,即绝对值上增加农民纯收入和相对值上缩小城乡收入差距,尤其能精准提升农民的工资性收入;同时,数字禀赋能够提高农地流转效率,实现新的动态博弈均衡。进一步,使用中国2002—2016年省级面板数据对以上结论进行验证,结果稳健。据此,利用现代数字禀赋、强化土地权能、健全农地市场流转机制,可更大限度提升农民福利,持续增加农民收入。

When modern digital information gets integrated into traditional agricultural production,could it play the role of rural land more effectively and stimulate the continuous increase of farmers’ income? By expanding the Todaro model and combining the Theil index,this paper constructs a mathematical model of China’s urban-rural dual economic structure to make an analysis from the perspective of information asymmetry.The study finds that sufficient digital endowment and improved farmland transfer rights significantly boost farmers’ income and welfare level,which means they can absolutely increase farmers’ net income,relatively narrow the gap between urban income and rural income,and accurately enhance farmers’ salary income;In the meantime,digital endowments can improve the efficiency of agricultural land transfer and achieve a new equilibrium in dynamic games.The paper tests the above conclusions using China’s 2002-2016 provincial panel data,and the results corroborate the applicability of the conclusions.Accordingly,exploiting modern digital endowments,strengthening land rights and improving the farmland market circulation mechanism can enhance farmers’ welfare to a notable extent and increase farmers’ income continuously.