暨大IESR马森助理教授的合作论文发表于发展经济学顶级期刊JDE

近日，暨南大学经济与社会研究院（IESR）助理教授马森合作论文“Land titling, human capital misallocation, and agricultural productivity in China”（合作者：Shouying Liu, Lijuan Yin, Jiong Zhu）被发展经济学顶级期刊Journal of Development Economics接受发表。

Land titling, human capital misallocation, and agricultural productivity in China

中国的土地确权、人力资本错配和农业生产率

Abstract

Previous studies quantifying the relationship between land titles and agricultural productivity have not explored the role of human capital reallocation. This paper enhances existing literature by examining the effects of land titling on the reallocation of labor with heterogenous human capital endowments between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. In reference to China's county-by-county rollout of the land titling program, this paper applies a difference-in-differences (DID) framework and finds that farmers with higher human capital are more likely to migrate out of villages following the completion of the titling program, which in turn causes a “brain drain” from the agricultural sector. There is a subsequent decrease in agricultural productivity and output. This productivity loss has not been thoroughly discussed in previous studies and nor considered in the policy making process. Our results indicate that future land reforms should consider the impact of land titling programs on the reallocation of human capital across sectors.

以往量化土地所有权与农业生产率之间关系的研究并未探讨人力资本重新配置的作用。本文通过研究土地确权对具有异质性人力资本禀赋的劳动力在农业和非农业部门之间重新配置的影响，对现有文献进行了补充。参照中国逐县推广土地确权计划的做法，本文采用双重差分法（DID）进行研究，发现人力资本较高的农民在确权计划完成后更有可能迁出村庄，进而造成农业部门的 "人才流失"，农业生产率和产出随之下降。以往的研究并未对这种生产力损失进行深入讨论，也未在政策制定过程中加以考虑。我们的研究结果表明，未来的土地改革应考虑土地确权计划对人力资本跨部门重新分配的影响。

个人简介

马森，暨南大学经济与社会研究院助理教授，美国伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校经济学博士。研究领域：发展经济学，环境经济学，家庭经济学，国际经济学。研究成果发表于Journal of Development Economics, Demography, China Economic Review等国际权威期刊，主持国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目。

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