Does the New Rural Pension System Promote Farmland Transfer in the Context of Aging in Rural China: Evidence from the CHARLS

Wang, Yahui; Yang, Qingyuan; Xin, Liangjie; Zhang, Jingyu

doi:10.3390/ijerph16193592

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“…From the perspective of land transfer, land endowment significantly impacts the land transfer decision, especially when the head of a household is older and thus more inclined to transfer land. This result is consistent with the findings of He et al [36], who argued that land transfer can liberate the rural elderly from the heavy burden of traditional farming [6]. More specifically, with the increase of age, the income of famers through farming gradually decreases, while the rent obtained from land transfer can bring them higher income.…”

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“…The extensive operation of traditional agriculture causes an increasing proportion of the rural population to move to neighboring towns or cities, which leads to an increase in the land abandonment rate year by year in rural areas, especially in remote mountainous areas or backward areas [1,2]. Land circulation can effectively alleviate the problem of land abandonment, increase efficiency of land use and ecological security, optimize the distribution of elements, marginal output level, and income poverty reduction triple effect [3][4][5][6], and realize land scale management, solving food security and quality control problems in developing countries [7]. For instance, Brauw et al [8] reported that land transfer improves the mobility of Ethiopian farming households, thus increasing their incomes.…”

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Farmer Heterogeneity and Land Transfer Decisions Based on the Dual Perspectives of Economic Endowment and Land Endowment

Cheng

Zeng

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Guiding qualified farmers to transfer their land is an important way to alleviate the problem of land abandonment, improve land use efficiency, and achieve moderately large-scale land management. Based on the dual perspectives of economic endowment and land endowment, this paper uses the 2015 data of the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), using the semilogarithmic ordinary least-squares method and the logit model, to explore differences in land transfer decisions under the effect of farmer heterogeneity. The circulation trading market was further improved to provide a reference. The heterogeneity of economic endowment and land endowment significantly affects the decision-making behavior of farmers in transferring land. The higher the land endowment is, the greater the probability that farmers transfer the land out and successfully trade, and they are more inclined to transfer the cultivated land to cooperatives, village collectives, and other institutions through formal channels, leading to a higher unit income of the transfer. Further research shows that land endowment has no significant difference in the impact of land endowment on whether farmers with different livelihood endowments transfer their land, but under the same land endowment, farmers with economic endowment advantages are more able to use their own endowment advantages to transfer their land out through formal channels and obtain higher gains income. Therefore, focusing on improving the conditions of land resources and increasing the endowment of farmers are important means to promote successful transactions in the land transfer market, ensure its sustainable operation, and promote further increase in the income of transfer farmers.

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confidence: 92%

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Farmer Heterogeneity and Land Transfer Decisions Based on the Dual Perspectives of Economic Endowment and Land Endowment

Cheng

Zeng

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“…In terms of health, the rates of chronic diseases and overweight rose over the 2011–2015 period by 8.6 and 6.0 pp, respectively, although physical and social activity also increased by 3 and 2.5 pp and the prevalence of smoking declined by 2.8 pp. Additionally, as in previous studies using the CHARLS data [ 31 , 75 , 76 , 77 ], the rate of pension coverage increased sharply from 44% in 2011 to 74% in 2015. The translog household expenditure per capita also significantly rose from 8.6 to 9.1 during the same period.…”

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Housing Poverty and Healthy Aging in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

Wang

Ding

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Background: Although prior research on the housing–health linkage suggested that those with poor housing conditions are more likely to report poor health, it is dominated by Western studies and offers little evidence on the housing–health relation in China. Scarce is empirical evidence on the potentially detrimental impact of either qualitative or quantitative housing poverty on health outcomes, especially for seniors in China. This paper aims to fill this void by using data from the 2011–2015 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to provide a comprehensive analysis of the demographic, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors that contribute to changes in healthy aging among Chinese adults aged 60 and over. Methods: Data collected from 8839 adults aged 60 and over in the 2011 and 2015 CHARLS (3732 in 2011 and 5107 in 2015) were used. We first used six blood-based biomarkers to construct a composite measure of the Chinese Healthy Aging Index (CHAI, ranging from 0 (healthiest) to 12 (unhealthiest)) and then assessed the psychometric properties of the CHAI score, including acceptability, internal consistency, convergent validity, discriminative validity and precision. In addition, we employed both mean-based Blinder–Oaxaca and unconditional quantile regression decomposition to decompose the change in healthy aging within the 2011–2015 period. Results: We overall identified a decrease in CHAI score from 5.69 in 2011 to 5.20 in 2015, which implies an improvement in healthy aging during this period. Our linear decomposition revealed that dependent on the type of measure used (whether quality, quantity, or combined quality–quantity), housing poverty explained 4–8% of the differences in CHAI score. Our distributional decompositions also highlighted an important role for housing poverty in the change in healthy aging, accounting for approximately 7–23% of the explained portion. Within this latter, the relative contribution of housing quantity and quality poverty was more pronounced at the median and upper end of the CHAI distribution. We also found household expenditure to be significantly associated with healthy aging among older Chinese adults and made the largest contribution to the improvement in healthy aging over time. Conclusions: The association between housing poverty and CHAI is independent of household expenditure. Regardless of type, housing poverty is positively associated with a decrease in healthy aging. Thus, improved housing conditions boost healthy aging, and housing amelioration initiatives may offer the most effective solution for augmenting healthy aging in China. Improvement of flush toilets and the access to potable water and a separate kitchen require particular attention. Since high-density congested housing has a negative impact on healthy aging, more attention can also be paid to improvements in the available space for older people. Especially at an institutional level, the government may extend the housing policy from a homeownership scheme to a housing upgrading scheme by improving housing conditions.

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“…Thus, a series of policies have been issued to promote farmland transfer. According to the data of the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China, the transferred area of farmland reached 2.69 × 10 7 hm 2 by the end of 2018, accounting for 30.4% of the total area of household-contracted farmland, approximately 20% higher than in 2012 [13], and a more important reason for farmland transfer flourishing in China is that the government expected to promote rural households' income through farmland transfer [14]. Because the income gap between urban and rural is the important cause of the large population migration in rural China, which further caused "hollowing village" and the countryside decline [15][16][17].…”

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confidence: 99%

The Impact of Farmland Transfer on Rural Households’ Income Structure in the Context of Household Differentiation: A Case Study of Heilongjiang Province, China

Chen

ChaoHui³

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Farmland transfer is an important factor affecting rural households’ income and sustainable development of rural areas in developing countries. However, recent studies have reached controversial conclusions on how farmland transfer affects rural households’ income because of ignoring the household differentiation and the difference in the impacts of farmland transfer-in and transfer-out on the income structure. Taking the Heilongjiang province, the major cereal production area in China, as the study area, the paper aims to estimate the impacts of farmland transfer-in or transfer-out of different rural households on income structure based on the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) model. Results showed that the total income of all rural households transferring-in farmland increased significantly while the income decreased after transferring-out farmland, and I part-time households have the largest increase, followed by pure-agricultural households and II part-time households, whereas I part-time households has the smallest reduction, followed by pure-agricultural households and II part-time households. Because the increase in the agricultural income and subsidies was greater than the decrease in the outworking income for I part-time households transferring-in farmland, while the outworking income not increasing but decreasing when II part-time households transferring-out farmland. We can conclude that (1) encouraging pure-agricultural and I part-time households to transfer farmland in and II part-time households to transfer out of farmland, and develop mutual assistance for the aged in rural areas should be strengthened. (2) Improving the farmland transfer market and promoting non-agricultural employment of surplus-labor need to be synchronized. (3) Agricultural subsidies should be provided to cultivators.

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Does the New Rural Pension System Promote Farmland Transfer in the Context of Aging in Rural China: Evidence from the CHARLS

Cited by 21 publications

References 30 publications

Farmer Heterogeneity and Land Transfer Decisions Based on the Dual Perspectives of Economic Endowment and Land Endowment

Farmer Heterogeneity and Land Transfer Decisions Based on the Dual Perspectives of Economic Endowment and Land Endowment

Housing Poverty and Healthy Aging in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

The Impact of Farmland Transfer on Rural Households’ Income Structure in the Context of Household Differentiation: A Case Study of Heilongjiang Province, China

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