Measuring the effect of agricultural cooperatives on household income: Case study of a rice-producing cooperative in China
Measuring the effect of agricultural cooperatives on household income: Case study of a rice-producing cooperative in China
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DOI：
10.1002/agr.21554
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发表时间：
2018-09-01
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Su, Qun
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作者：
Hoken, Hisatoshi;Su, Qun
中国的农业合作社，被称为农民专业合作社(FPC)，正在变得流行起来，并得到了中国政府的大力推动，以提高小农户的经济福利。然而，很少有关于FPC的研究在控制了农民的可观察属性后衡量了参与FPC的农民获得的好处。采用倾向得分匹配法对中国市郊某水稻生产合作社的处理效果进行了调查。估计结果表明，在水稻生产纯收入方面，合作社参与者和非参与者之间存在显着差异。此外，大农户和小农户之间的处理效果存在显著的异质性。因此，我们可以得出结论，农业合作社的参与对相对较小的农户更有利，他们受到较高的交易成本的影响。[经济学人引文：Q12，Q13，O13]
Agricultural cooperatives in China, known as Farmers' Professional Cooperatives (FPCs), are becoming popular and have been intensely promoted by the Chinese government to improve the economic welfare of small farmers. However, few studies on FPCs have measured the benefits to gain farmers who participate in FPCs after controlling for observable attributes of farmers. This paper investigates the treatment effect of participation in a rice-producing cooperative in suburban China using the propensity score matching (PSM) method. Estimated results show that a significant difference is observed between participants and nonparticipants of the cooperative in terms of net income from rice production. In addition, there is significant heterogeneity of the treatment effects between large and small farmers. Therefore, we can conclude that the participation in agricultural cooperatives is more beneficial to relatively small farmers who are subject to suffer from higher transaction costs. [EconLit citations: Q12, Q13, O13]