Income effects of poverty alleviation relocation program on rural farmers in China

doi:10.1016/S2095-3119(20)63583-3

Journal of Integrative Agriculture ›› 2021, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (4): 891-904.DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(20)63583-3

收稿日期:2020-02-20 出版日期:2021-04-01 发布日期:2021-03-28

Income effects of poverty alleviation relocation program on rural farmers in China

LENG Gan-xiao¹, FENG Xiao-long², QIU Huan-guang¹

¹ School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, P.R.China
² College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, P.R.China

Received:2020-02-20 Online:2021-04-01 Published:2021-03-28
About author:LENG Gan-xiao, E-mail: gxleng@ruc.edu.cn; Correspondence QIU Huan-guang, Tel: +86-10-62513901, E-mail: hgqiu@ruc.edu.cn
Supported by:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71861147002 and 71761147004) and supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and the Research Funds of Renmin University of China (20XHN086).

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摘要：

本文基于8省16县中国易地扶贫搬迁户面板数据，分析了易地扶贫搬迁对农村家庭人均收入的影响，并评估各种搬迁方式的异质性增收效应。结果表明，易地扶贫搬迁可以增加搬迁人口的总收入。城镇安置的搬迁户工资性收入有显著增加，村内安置的搬迁户的农业收入有显著增加。进一步的分析表明，村内安置的搬迁户的收入增加主要得益于农业技术培训的发展，而城镇安置的搬迁户的收入增加主要是由于医疗等公共服务保障的改善。因此，对于村内安置的搬迁户，应加强当地的产业发展和农业技术培训。对于城镇安置的搬迁户，应通过提高安置区的非农就业服务和公共保障服务使其长期稳定发展。

Abstract:

This paper analyses the impact of the poverty alleviation relocation (PAR) program on rural household income and evaluates the heterogeneous income effects of various relocation modes, based on a panel dataset of relocated households from 16 counties in eight Chinese provinces. The results show that participation in the PAR increases the income of both rural and urban resettlers. More specifically, it has a significant positive effect on agricultural and wage income for rural and urban resettlers, respectively. Further analyses show that the income increase for rural resettlers was mainly due to agricultural technology training and that the income increase for town resettlers was attributed to medical security. For the village resettlers, policies should focus on strengthening the development of local industries and training of agricultural technologies. For the urban resettlers, non-agricultural employment and public services in the urban resettlement areas should be promoted.

Key words: targeted poverty alleviation , poverty alleviation relocation , relocation mode , income effects

. [J]. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2021, 20(4): 891-904.

LENG Gan-xiao, FENG Xiao-long, QIU Huan-guang . Income effects of poverty alleviation relocation program on rural farmers in China[J]. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2021, 20(4): 891-904.

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