Abstract
Th is study empirically analyses the impact of family life cycles on the family farm scale of rural households in Southern China. Th e ordered Probit modelling is applied to examine the survey data that comprise 2040 valid questionnai- res distributed in 88 villages of the Fujian province in China. Th e family life cycle has a remarkable infl uence on the family farm scale as a whole. Th e numbers of children and farming people in a family have a positive signifi cant eff ects on the fa- mily farm scale. In addition, the individual characteristics of female householders have signifi cant eff ects on the family farm scale. Meanwhile, the family characteristics diff er at fi ve defi ned stages of the family life cycle. Th e study covers the gap in the literature on the eff ects of family structure on the rural household economic behaviour, in particular, on the impact of the family life cycles on the family farm scale.
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