Study of Quit Willingness of Farmer’s Rural Residential Land from the Prospective of Human Capital: Case of Xinxiang in Henan Province

SHEN Haojing1,2, FENG Changchun2, CHEN Chun3,†

1. School of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Science & Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083; 2. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871; 3. College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074; † Corresponding author, E-mail: chenchun@pku.edu.cn

Abstract In order to explore the influence factors of farmers’ quit willingness of their rural residential land from the perspective of human capital theory, the authors report a survey from Xinxiang, a traditional agricultural area in Central China, and research the quit willingness of farmer’s rural residential land through interview and questionnaire survey. The authors build explanatory variable index system from three aspects: human capital, economic capital and land assets. A method of Logit model is applied to explore the main influence factors of farmers’ willingness to quit the right of farmer’s rural residential land. The results indicate that farmers don’t want to transfer their rural residential land in traditional agricultural area. Human capital is the important factor to affect the transfer of farmers’ rural residential land. Farmers’ knowledge and experience is important and significant for their quit willingness, rather than farmers’ education level. In addition, the impact of economic capital and land assets on farmer’s quit willingness is not significant. The research suggests that the government should raise farmers’ human capital from the aspects of enriching farmer’s knowledge and experience. Key words land administration; quit willingness of rural residential land; human capital; Logit model