Free Education Helps Combat Child Labor? The Effect of a Free Compulsory Education Reform in Rural China

Tang, Chaoli; Zhao, Liqiu; Zhao, Zhong

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“…To verify these results, robustness checks have been conducted using linear models, and the results of these linear simulations are consistent with those of the Logit and Tobit regression models. To confirm that the baseline regression results of this study are not affected by the random factors, following the approach of Tang et al [49], we have conducted a permutation test as a placebo test. This approach involves randomly assigning the status of e-commerce participation by the sampled farming households, followed by 1000 Monte Carlo simulations, to obtain regression coefficients.…”

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Does E-Commerce Participation among Farming Households Affect Farmland Abandonment? Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey in China

Zhou,

Ji,

Zhao

2024

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Reducing farmland abandonment is crucial for food security. While the association between e-commerce proliferation and farmland abandonment at the village level has been discussed, the correlation at the farming household level remains unexplored. Utilizing 2020 survey data from 3831 rural households across 10 Chinese provinces, this study develops an “e-commerce–household–farmland abandonment” framework to explore the co-occurrence of e-commerce engagement with farmland abandonment, using econometric models. The findings reveal that e-commerce engagement significantly increases farmland abandonment, with implicit and explicit rates rising by 10.3% and 28.5%, respectively. It also shifts household incomes from planting to forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries, leading households to reallocate labor away from agriculture, thereby intensifying abandonment. However, land transfer can alleviate this co-occurrence. This study also explores the variation in the association between e-commerce participation and farmland abandonment in relation to agricultural subsidies, economic development, and the presence of family farms. By elucidating the dynamics at the household level, this research offers fresh perspectives for developing countries to safeguard food security by curbing farmland abandonment.

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