The Impact of Nonfarm Activities on Agricultural Productivity in Rural China
The Impact of Nonfarm Activities on Agricultural Productivity in Rural China
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2011-05
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Yeu-Farn Wang;Chenggang Wang;Suwen Pan
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作者：
Yeu-Farn Wang;Chenggang Wang;Suwen Pan
虽然有大量证据表明，农村非农业活动的发展增加了农村家庭收入，促进了农村发展，但人们对农业生产力与非农业活动之间联系的基本结构和机制知之甚少。本文利用中国农村的面板数据，考察了非农活动对农业生产率的影响机制。研究发现，中国农村的非农收入对农地生产率有显著的正向影响。虽然非农活动确实会使劳动力退出农业，从而抑制土地生产率，但与非农收入融资的基础设施资本投资带来的土地生产率提高相比，这种负面影响可以忽略不计。
Although evidence abounds that the development of rural non-farm activities have increased rural household income and contributed to rural development, the underlying structure and mechanism of the linkage between agricultural productivity and non-farm activities is poorly understood. Using a unique panel dataset of Chinese villages, this article examines the mechanism by which non-farm activities influence agricultural productivity. I find that Chinese villages’ non-farm revenue has a significant positive effect on agricultural land productivity. Although non-farm activities do withdraw labor out of agriculture and therefore dampen land productivity, that negative effect is negligible in comparison with the land productivity improvement brought by nonfarm revenue-financed infrastructure capital investment.