Land rental market and rural household efficiency in China

IF 2.2 4区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Environment and Development Economics Pub Date : 2021-03-08 DOI:10.1017/S1355770X20000583

J. Chavas, Guanming Shi, Xiangyi Meng

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Abstract

Abstract Well-functioning factor markets play an important role in improving the performance of the agricultural sector. Our paper examines both technical and allocative efficiencies at the household level, with an application to a cross-section sample of rural households in three provinces of China in 2009. In a first step, we use nonparametric methods to estimate household efficiency. In a second step, we examine econometrically the role of land rental market and its linkages with household-level efficiencies. We find that participation in the land rental market does not affect technical efficiency but has large positive effects on allocative efficiency. This stresses the need to distinguish between technical efficiency and allocative efficiency in the analysis of land tenure issues. The improvements in allocative efficiency from land-leasing contribute to significant increases in household income in rural China.

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土地租赁市场与中国农村家庭效率

运行良好的要素市场在提高农业部门绩效方面发挥着重要作用。本文以2009年中国三个省份的农村家庭为样本，考察了家庭层面的技术效率和配置效率。在第一步，我们使用非参数方法来估计家庭效率。第二步，我们从计量经济学角度考察了土地租赁市场的作用及其与家庭效率的联系。研究发现，参与土地租赁市场对技术效率没有影响，但对配置效率有较大的正向影响。这强调在分析土地保有权问题时必须区分技术效率和分配效率。土地租赁对配置效率的提高促进了中国农村家庭收入的显著增加。

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Environment and Development Economics Multiple-

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5.00

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4.80%

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