Title: Empirical Analysis of Factors on Farmers' Income and Differences in China——Based on the Income Decision Equation and Shapley Value Decomposition
Abstract: Since the reform and opening up,China's economic development has made great achievements,but it did not benefit all. The income gap among the famers expanded continuously,which not only exacerbated the problem of rural poverty and weakened the income growth of farmers,but also seriously affect the harmony and stability for the sustainable development of Chinese economy and society. This paper firstly analyzed by income decision equation cross-section data collected from 566 households of sample survey in Jiangsu,He'nan and Sichuan Provinces and determined the major factors affecting the farmer households' incomes. Secondly,it analyzed the contribution of each significant factor on the income differences between households by Shapley value decomposition. The results showed that the average outdoor-work time of household labor force during a year was the most important factor affecting households' income increase and differences in between. And the average education years of labors took the second place. Based on the above mentioned results,this paper suggested that speeding up the development of nonagricultural industries in rural areas,increasing the non-agricultural employment opportunities,adding financial input to rural education,and providing equal access to education and training to farmers will sustainably increase farmers' incomes,and reduce the differences between farmers incomes at the same time.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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