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Measurement of Supply-and Demand-Side Endowment Effects and Analysis of Their Influencing Factors in Agricultural Land Transfer

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  • Hanying Zhang

    (College of Economics and Management, Northwest A & F University, Yangling 712100, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Jiafen Li

    (College of Economics and Management, Northwest A & F University, Yangling 712100, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Jinlong Shen

    (College of Economics and Management, Northwest A & F University, Yangling 712100, China)

  • Jianfeng Song

    (College of Economics and Management, Northwest A & F University, Yangling 712100, China)

Abstract

For a long time, the transference of land-contracting management rights was hindered by the unwillingness of farmers and inefficient use of farmland. The endowment effect is prevalent for farmers and is the main reason for the inhibited flow of farmland. However, recent studies have evaluated the endowment effect by treating buyers and sellers as one subject, which cannot be applied to individual land transfer transactions. Therefore, this paper redefines the endowment effect of farmland management rights by introducing market price as a reference point to evaluate the level of the supply- and demand-side endowment effects. The supply-side endowment effect is the gap between sellers’ willingness to accept and the market rent; the demand-side endowment effect is the gap between the market rent and buyers’ willingness to pay. In the empirical study, two multiple regression models are designed to measure the respective factors affecting the supply and demand sides, employing farm household survey data in Shaanxi Province. The obtained results reveal that the agricultural land transfer in Shaanxi Province is at a normal proportional level, and the supply- and demand-side endowment effects in agricultural land transfer are prevalent. The dependence of people on goods and the substitutability of the goods significantly affect the endowment effect of supply-side farmers, while the perception of expected income, cost and risk impact the endowment effect of demand-side farmers. Based on this, some policy recommendations are proposed to offset the influence of the endowment effect, thus promoting the development of the farmland transfer market.

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  • Hanying Zhang & Jiafen Li & Jinlong Shen & Jianfeng Song, 2022. "Measurement of Supply-and Demand-Side Endowment Effects and Analysis of Their Influencing Factors in Agricultural Land Transfer," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-21, November.
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