私人转移支付如何影响农村留守家庭成员消费?

How does private transfer payment affect the consumption of rural left-behind family members?

基于中国土地经济调查微观数据,构建“私人转移支付、农地转出与留守家庭成员消费”理论框架分析私人转移支付对农村留守家庭成员消费的影响,并从农地转出视角揭示其内在逻辑。研究发现:私人转移支付会显著降低农村留守家庭成员消费支出,尤其是生存型与享受型消费支出,并扩大消费不平等,且这种负向效应在中低消费水平的农村留守家庭成员中更为显著。路径分析表明:私人转移支付促使农村留守家庭转出农地,降低了留守家庭成员的经济地位感知与收益时间偏好,扩大家庭收入差距,导致消费减少与消费不平等程度提高。

Based on the micro-data of China Land Economic Survey,the impact of private transfer payment on the consumption of rural left-behind family members has been analyzed by constructing a theoretical framework of“private transfer payment,farmland transfer and consumption of left-behind family members”,and the inner logic has been revealed from the perspective of farmland transfer.It is found that private transfer payment would significantly reduce the consumption expenditure of rural left-behind family members,especially the consumption expenditure of subsistence and enjoyment;it would also widen the consumption inequality,and for the rural left-behind family members with low and medium consumption levels,this negative effect is more obvious.The path analysis shows that private transfer payment would induce the rural left-behind family members to rent out or sell farmland,thus reducing their economic status perception and income time preference,widening the household income gap,and resulting in reduced consumption and increased consumption inequality.