Impact of Confirmation of Farmland Rights on Farmers’ Welfare: Based on the Micro-Empirical Investigation of Farmers in China

Jianghua Guan, Ke Huang (), Xi Lan, Junfeng Zhang and Huiqin Li
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Jianghua Guan: College of Geography and Tourism, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang 438000, China
Ke Huang: School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Xi Lan: College of Geography and Tourism, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang 438000, China
Junfeng Zhang: Department of Urban Economic Management, School of Public Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
Huiqin Li: School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 15, 1-13

Abstract: The confirmation of farmland rights would have a great impact on the welfare of farmers in China. Taking Chinese farmers as the research object, the relationship between farmland rights confirmation, farmland transfer and the welfare of farmers was studied by adopting the propensity score matching method (PSM) and logistic model. The result showed that: (1) The confirmation of farmland rights could improve the welfare of farmers. The dominant factors that affected the impact of the confirmation of farmland rights included family net income, medical insurance, self-health evaluation, difficulty of land financing, stability of land management rights, the difficulty of employment, satisfaction with circulation prices, and the improvement of neighborhood relations. (2) Implementing the confirmation of farmland rights could improve the welfare of farmers, and there were significant differences between farmers. The value of the welfare of farmers who had been transferred out was higher than that of farmers who had been transferred in. (3) After implementing the confirmation of farmland rights, the welfare of farmers would be improved by the net income of the household, the stability of land management rights and the improvement of neighborhood relations, while the welfare of farmers would be hindered from continuous improvement by the difficulty of employment, and satisfaction with circulation prices had opposite effects on the welfare of farmers who had transferred in or out. Based on these results, the suggestions put forward include building a price mechanism of effective circulation, utilizing differentiated skill training, and improving various measurements to show the advantages for welfare of the confirmation of farmland rights.

Keywords: confirmation of farmland rights; farmland circulation; welfare effect; propensity score matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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