Does Land Lease Affect the Multidimensional Poverty Alleviation? The Evidence from Jiangxi, China

Hui Xiao, Xian Liang, Shu Xing, Longjunjiang Huang () and Fangting Xie ()
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Hui Xiao: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Xian Liang: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Shu Xing: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Longjunjiang Huang: School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
Fangting Xie: School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou 311300, China

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-20

Abstract: This study uses field survey data from 382 families in the year 2020 in Jiangxi province, China, to explore the effects of land lease and labor migration, a well-known occurrence in China, on rural households’ multidimensional poverty status. We used the A-F method to measure the household’s multidimensional poverty in terms of health, education, income, living standard, and social relations. The Bootstrap Test approach, which worked well with our data, was used to build our mediating effect models while taking into account the influence mechanisms of land leasing and multidimensional poverty. According to our findings, 76.70% of sample homes experience multidimensional poverty at the threshold of 0.33. The reduction of multidimensional poverty is significantly aided by both leasing in and leasing out land. Land lease out and land lease in, however, have asymmetrical effects on multidimensional poverty alleviation, with the proportion of land lease out being 1.147 without control variables and the proportion of land lease in being 0.969 without control variables. Land lease in and lease out have positive effects on the multifaceted alleviation of poverty due to the mediating effect of labor migration. For policymakers to develop and put into action more relevant policies to help multidimensional poverty alleviation, our analysis offers critical insights.

Keywords: land lease; labor migration mediation effect; multidimensional poverty alleviation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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