Can farmland transfer reduce vulnerability to poverty among the mid-aged and elderly in rural China?

ABSTRACT: Exploring the influence of farmland transfer on poverty among the mid-aged and elderly rural households is of great value in preventing them from returning to poverty and in solving the problem of rural poverty. Based on the propensity score matching with differences in differences approach, this paper measures and compares the effects of farmland transfer-in and transfer-out on the vulnerability to poverty of the mid-aged and elderly rural households by using the tracking survey of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2015 and 2018. The findings reveal that: (1) The anti-poverty effect of farmland transfer is "asymmetric". Farmland transfer-in can significantly reduce the vulnerability to poverty of the lessee households, but farmland transfer-out has no such effect.

SUBMITTER: Lu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10682632 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature