The effect of China's agricultural tax abolition on rural families' incomes and production |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Economics, UC San Diego, United States;2. National School of Development, Peking University, China;1. Dept. of Int''l Business and Economics, South China University of Technology, Building B-10, Guangzhou University Town, Panyu, Guangzhou 510006 China;2. Department of International Business and Economics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou University Town, Panyu, Guangzhou 510006, China;1. School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology and School of Business and Economics, Qiqihar University, Qiqihar, China;2. School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China;3. College of Business Administration, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, USA;1. Innovation Systems Department, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Vienna, Austria;2. Institute for Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, China;1. School of Business, Shandong University of Technology, No.88 Gongqingtuan Road, Zibo, Shandong 255012, China;2. Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada;3. NBER, United States;4. The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Canada |
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| Abstract: | This paper uses the rural household panel data collected by Research Center for Rural Economy to evaluate the impacts of China's agricultural tax abolition during 2004–2005 on farmers' income and production behavior. We find that the abolition of agricultural tax did not significantly affect agricultural production. The effects on input use and productivity are also found statistically insignificant. All these are consistent with the lump-sum property of the tax and imply little effect of the tax abolition on relaxing credit constraints to farmers. Finally, we find that the tax abolition did not increase farmers' net income significantly. |
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