关键词: 土地经营权流转, 农村居民, 收入分配, 分位数处理效应

Abstract: Under the current rural land system, whether the circulation of the land management rights can reduce the income gap while increasing farmers’ income is a practical question that must be answered. Using a data set of fixed observation sites from 180 villages in 25 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) of China, this paper evaluates the effect of the circulation of the land management rights on farmers’ income distribution from two aspects, namely income growth and income gap. The regression estimation results show that the circulation of the land management rights ( including inward circulation and outward circulation) significantly increases the farmers’ average income. The CQTE estimation results show that the income effect of the circulation of the land management rights increases with the increase of income quantile, which indicates that the circulation of the land management rights expands farmers’ income gap. The UQTE estimation results show the circulation of the land management rights does not have a significant impact on the low-income farmers’ income growth; especially the effect of inward circulation at and below the median quantiles is not significant. The low-income farmers are constrained by their economic conditions and the market access cost of land circulation, so it is more difficult for them to achieve the optimal goal by land circulation for better allocation of household resources. In the future, measures such as standardizing the order of rural land market and reducing the access cost of land circulation should be taken to improve the effect of land circulation in balancing the growth of farmers’ income.

Key words: Circulation of the Land Management Rights, Farmers, Income Distribution, Quantile Treatment Effect