The Policy Effect, Spatial Heterogeneity, and Spillover Effect of Land System Pilots

Haiyang Shang, Ying Kou, Fang Su, Nini Song and Shuxin Mao
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Haiyang Shang: School of Management, Northwest University of Political Science and Law, Xi’an 710122, China
Ying Kou: School of Management, Northwest University of Political Science and Law, Xi’an 710122, China
Fang Su: School of Economics and Management, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi’an 710021, China
Nini Song: School of Economics and Management, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi’an 710021, China
Shuxin Mao: School of Economics and Management, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi’an 710021, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 21, 1-19

Abstract: As an important way to innovate the pattern of land reform, the land system pilots serve as the crucial driving force in promoting rural economic development under the background of rural revitalization. Based on the panel data of 10 pilots along the Yellow River basin, this paper chose 111 near and distant neighboring regions from 2009 to 2018. This paper tested the spillover effects and regional heterogeneity characteristics of the land system pilots using the propensity score matching-difference-in-differences (PSM-DID) method and regression discontinuity design (RDD). The results are as follows: first, the land system pilots have a significant and general impact on regional economic development; second, the establishment of the land system pilots has different impacts on the economic development of near and distant neighboring regions, which shows obvious policy-effect spillovers; and third, the land system pilots have the strongest stimulating effect on the economic development of the middle reaches of the Yellow River basin, as well as the weakest stimulating effect on upstream regional economic development, which shows the significant spatial heterogeneity of policy effects. The results of the research study are of great significance for the exploration of regionally differentiated system-supply pilots under the background of rural revitalization. Additionally, this study has important implications for further land system improvements and rural economic developments.

Keywords: land reform policy; economic development; PSM-DID method; regression discontinuity design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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