Effect of personality traits on smallholders' land renting behavior: Theory and evidence from the North China Plain

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Qian, Chen

作者： Qian, Chen;Li, Xiande;Qian, Chen;Li, Fan;Heerink, Nico;Antonides, Gerrit;Ma, Xianlei

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关键词： Land rental market; Personality traits; Locus of control; Causal mediation analysis; Rural China

期刊名称：CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW （ 影响因子：6.8； 五年影响因子：6.8 ）

ISSN： 1043-951X

年卷期： 2020 年 62 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： This study investigates the effect of smallholders' personality traits on their land rental market decisions. We develop a conceptual framework and show that these internal factors could affect smallholders' land rental market participation beyond institutional and socio-demographic factors. Our empirical analysis is based on a survey of 2119 rural households collected in the North China Plain. We find that smallholders with a higher level of openness are more active in participating in the farmland rental market. Moreover, internal locus of control plays a significant role in explaining smallholders' land renting behavior. We further show that need for achievement mediates the link between internal locus of control and smallholder's intention to rent land, indicating that fostering a higher level of internal locus of control-and subsequently achievement desire-could play an important role in promoting smallholders' land-renting behavior. More generally, our results imply that taking rural smallholders' personality traits into account in designing land rental policies may increase the effectiveness of policies aimed at promoting land rental market participation among smallholders and incubating crop farm scale enlargement in rural China.

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