Analysis of Influencing Factors and Income Effect of Heterogeneous Agricultural Households’ Forestland Transfer

Juan Wu, Wenjing Yu, Xiaobing Liu and Yali Wen ()
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Juan Wu: College of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Wenjing Yu: College of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Xiaobing Liu: College of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Agriculture, Beijing 102206, China
Yali Wen: College of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 9, 1-17

Abstract: After the collective forest tenure reform, the forestland transfer behavior choices did not reach the policy expectations. In order to explore the factors influencing the behavior of farmers’ forestland transfer and the income effect of forestland transfer, this paper constructs a binary logistic regression model and a propensity score matching (PSM) model and uses the data obtained from a questionnaire survey of 500 farmers from 10 counties in Liaoning Province for quantitative analysis. Considering the heterogeneity, agricultural households are divided into three categories, namely, pure agricultural households, part-time agricultural households and non-agricultural households. The study found that the influencing factors of different types of agricultural households’ forestland transfer behavior choices were not exactly the same and the degree of influence by the same variable was also different. Forestland transfer can effectively promote the increase of agricultural and forestry income and total household income of pure agricultural households, part-time agricultural households and non-agricultural households, among which the promotion effect on pure agricultural households is the largest.

Keywords: forest tenure reform; heterogeneity agricultural households; forestland transfer; forestland property right (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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