Exploring the Impact of Land Certification on Centralized Transfer in Rural China: The Roles of Timing, Inequality, and Governance
The existing studies have primarily discussed the impact of land certification on farmers’ land transfer behaviors, neglecting its potential for centralized transfer under the orientation of optimizing land utilization and allocation efficiency. This study employed the Probit model, Propensity Score...
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| description | The existing studies have primarily discussed the impact of land certification on farmers’ land transfer behaviors, neglecting its potential for centralized transfer under the orientation of optimizing land utilization and allocation efficiency. This study employed the Probit model, Propensity Score Matching method, and IV-Probit model to explore the effects and underlying mechanisms of land certification on centralized transfer based on the China Land Economic Survey data, especially emphasizing the roles of timing, inequality, and governance. Among transfer-out households, land certification increases the likelihood of farmers adopting centralized transfer rather than decentralized transfer. After considering the differential influence exerted by the timing of certification, the earlier the households obtain the land contract management certificates, the greater the positive impact. This phenomenon can be explained from the dual perspectives of economy and governance, including rural industrial development and rural governance performance. In the heterogeneity analysis, we focused on land inequality, farmers’ risk preference, and village governance teams’ capacity. Land certification mainly benefits farmers facing weak land inequality or low-risk preference, as well as those in villages with highly educated cadres. In the new round of land certification program, our findings provide new insights for continuously optimizing land utilization and allocation. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6eb6f586f4fd4d2aa3ccfd7234a638852025-08-20T02:00:34ZengMDPI AGLand2073-445X2024-11-011312202210.3390/land13122022Exploring the Impact of Land Certification on Centralized Transfer in Rural China: The Roles of Timing, Inequality, and GovernanceLan Pan0Haoran Wan1Xufeng Cui2School of Economics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, ChinaSchool of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, ChinaThe existing studies have primarily discussed the impact of land certification on farmers’ land transfer behaviors, neglecting its potential for centralized transfer under the orientation of optimizing land utilization and allocation efficiency. This study employed the Probit model, Propensity Score Matching method, and IV-Probit model to explore the effects and underlying mechanisms of land certification on centralized transfer based on the China Land Economic Survey data, especially emphasizing the roles of timing, inequality, and governance. Among transfer-out households, land certification increases the likelihood of farmers adopting centralized transfer rather than decentralized transfer. After considering the differential influence exerted by the timing of certification, the earlier the households obtain the land contract management certificates, the greater the positive impact. This phenomenon can be explained from the dual perspectives of economy and governance, including rural industrial development and rural governance performance. In the heterogeneity analysis, we focused on land inequality, farmers’ risk preference, and village governance teams’ capacity. Land certification mainly benefits farmers facing weak land inequality or low-risk preference, as well as those in villages with highly educated cadres. In the new round of land certification program, our findings provide new insights for continuously optimizing land utilization and allocation.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/12/2022property rightsland certificationtimingcentralized transferrural Chinarural industrial development |
| spellingShingle | Lan Pan Haoran Wan Xufeng Cui Exploring the Impact of Land Certification on Centralized Transfer in Rural China: The Roles of Timing, Inequality, and Governance Land property rights land certification timing centralized transfer rural China rural industrial development |
| title | Exploring the Impact of Land Certification on Centralized Transfer in Rural China: The Roles of Timing, Inequality, and Governance |
| title_full | Exploring the Impact of Land Certification on Centralized Transfer in Rural China: The Roles of Timing, Inequality, and Governance |
| title_fullStr | Exploring the Impact of Land Certification on Centralized Transfer in Rural China: The Roles of Timing, Inequality, and Governance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the Impact of Land Certification on Centralized Transfer in Rural China: The Roles of Timing, Inequality, and Governance |
| title_short | Exploring the Impact of Land Certification on Centralized Transfer in Rural China: The Roles of Timing, Inequality, and Governance |
| title_sort | exploring the impact of land certification on centralized transfer in rural china the roles of timing inequality and governance |
| topic | property rights land certification timing centralized transfer rural China rural industrial development |
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