《JDE》｜土地生产力和地块大小:是测量误差驱动的反向关系吗?

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尽管土地面积小，土地分割程度高，劳动力成本不断上升，但中国的农业生产仍在稳步增长。如果把农户作为分析单位，就很难解释这个难题。但如果从分工的角度来看待农业生产，这个难题就很容易解决。为了应对劳动力成本上升，农民将一些能源密集型生产环节(如收割)外包给专门的机械化服务提供商，这些服务提供商往往集中在几个县，并在全国各地以具有竞争力的价格提供收割服务。通过这样的安排，小农可以在农业生产中保持生存能力。

关键词

农业;刘易斯拐点;外包;机械化

Abstract

Despite small landholdings, a high degree of land fragmentation, and rising labor costs, agricultural production in China has steadily increased. If one treats the farm household as the unit of analysis, it would be difficult to explain the conundrum. When seeing agricultural production from the lens of the division of labor, the puzzle can be easily solved. In response to rising labor costs, farmers outsource some power-intensive stages of production, such as harvesting, to specialized mechanization service providers, which are often clustered in a few counties and travel throughout the country to provide harvesting services at competitive prices. Through such an arrangement, smallholder farmers can stay viable in agricultural production.

Keywords:

Agriculture；Lewis turning point；Outsource；Mechanization

期刊简介

《Journal of Development Economics》（JDE）最新影响因子3.875。《发展经济学杂志》发表与经济发展的所有方面有关的原始研究论文——从当前的政策关切到不发达的结构性问题，是学界公认的发展经济学领域的顶级期刊。

原文链接

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2017.

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