Can Social Capital Help the Youngers Rent Land?—A Case of Pastoral Areas in Inner Mongolia, P.R. China

Tingyu Li, Bo Liu and Shuhao Tan ()
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Tingyu Li: Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Bo Liu: Agricultural Trade Promotion Center, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Beijing 100125, China
Shuhao Tan: School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 10, 1-15

Abstract: Ensuring the youngers obtain access to land resources is important to help them earn a living and sustain agriculture. By applying a probit model to a comprehensive dataset with 422 sampled households from Inner Mongolia, the results of this study showed that social capital significantly improved the possibility of herders renting land. However, compared with the middle-aged group, the youngers’ social capital is significantly weaker in helping them rent land. The findings and policy implications proposed by this study are expected to narrow the intergenerational difference in social capital and promote the transfer of land between generations, which will help the youngers obtain access to land resources, enhance their sustainable livelihood, and facilitate the sustainability of agriculture in the future.

Keywords: social capital; youngers; land policy intervention; Inner Mongolia; land rental market (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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