资产专用性和农户苹果经营代际传递意愿

doi:10.1016/j.jia.2023.04.016

摘要/Abstract

摘要：

在苹果产区农业人口老龄化与农村劳动力转移双重人口发展趋势下，“将来谁来种苹果”的问题凸显。由于中国实行以家庭联产承包责任制为特征的农业经营制度，苹果生产仍然以农户家庭经营为主，在苹果主产区农户农地流转比例较低的现实背景下，农户及其后代的苹果经营意愿对苹果可持续生产具有重要影响，因此，深入了解农户苹果经营代际传递意愿对分析苹果产区未来苹果产业发展形势、协调城镇化与苹果产业发展的关系、提升苹果可持续发展能力具有重要意义。该研究揭示了除了地理位置专用性的负向影响之外，人力资本专用性、实物资产专用性和土地资产专用性均会增强农户苹果经营代际传递意愿。损失厌恶在实物资产专用性、土地资产专用性和地理位置专用性对农户苹果经营代际传递意愿的影响中发挥部分中介作用。

Abstract: Understanding the factors behind apple farmers’ willingness to pass on the management of their farms to their descendants is crucial to the continuity of apple production. Due to the high specificity of the human capital, physical assets, land assets, and geographical location in apple production, this study used a binary logistic regression and a mediating effect model to explore the impact of asset specificity on farmers’ intergenerational succession willingness of apple management (FISWAM) and to examine the mediating effects of loss aversion in the impact of asset specificity on the FISWAM. The results showed that about 18.68% of the respondents expressed willingness to transfer their apple business between generations, and the FISWAM was generally weak. In addition to the negative impact of geographical location specificity (GLS), human capital specificity (HCS), physical assets specificity (PAS), and land assets specificity (LAS) can enhance the FISWAM. Loss aversion plays a partial mediating role in the impact of PAS, LAS, and GLS on the FISWAM

Key words: asset specificity , loss aversion , apple management , intergenerational succession willingness , mediating effects examination

ZHANG Qiang-qiang, GAO Xi-xi, Nazir Muhammad ABDULLAHI, WANG Yue, HUO Xue-xi. 资产专用性和农户苹果经营代际传递意愿[J]. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2023, 22(8): 2553-2566.

ZHANG Qiang-qiang, GAO Xi-xi, Nazir Muhammad ABDULLAHI, WANG Yue, HUO Xue-xi. Asset specificity and farmers’ intergenerational succession willingness of apple management[J]. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2023, 22(8): 2553-2566.

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