Scientia Agricultura Sinica ›› 2012, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (21): 4508-4516.doi: 10.3864/j.issn.0578-1752.2012.21.020

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Differences in Endowments of Peasant Household, Agricultural Subsidies, and Peasants’ Willingness to Transfer Farmlands —A Micro-Empirical Analysis from a Survey on Peasant Household of 30 Villages in 8 Provinces

 HOU  Shi-An   

  1. 中南财经政法大学财政税务学院,武汉 430073
  • Received:2012-03-05 Online:2012-11-01 Published:2012-05-23

Abstract: 【Objective】The impacts of endowment differences in farmlands, human resources and property among peasant household and the state’s agricultural subsidy policies on peasants’ willingness to transfer farmlands were studied, and the fundamental factors of the farmlands transfer were analyzed.【Method】On the basis of survey data from 1 585 peasant households of 8 provinces in 2010, this article used Binary quantile regression and bayesian estimation techniques to measure the effect.【Result】 It was found that all kinds of endowment differences and policy variables have an obvious quantile effect on peasant households’ willingness to transfer farmlands.【Conclusion】There is a substitute relationship between farmlands’ social security function and its income effect. It has a better social security function on those who are at disadvantage endowments. Subsidies for growing superior grain and subsidies for agricultural capital goods play a limited role in encouraging peasant household to acquire farmlands. The agricultural subsidy policies should be combined with the career training of rural labors. Small loans play an obvious role in farmlands transfer.

Key words: farmland transfer, endowment, agricultural subsidies, Binary quantile regression

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