Abstract
The withdrawal of homesteads is an effective way to improve the efficiency of rural construction land use and is being piloted in many regions of China, but the mechanism influencing farmers’ satisfaction with the withdrawal policy is unclear. This paper aimed to investigate the relationships among farmers’ economic status (ES), policy expectation (PE), policy perceived value (PPV), and farmers’ satisfaction with homestead withdrawal policy (policy satisfaction; PS). The study examined the mediating effects of PE and PPV on the relationship between ES and PS. The data obtained from a questionnaire of 287 households in Jinhu County, Jiangsu Province, China. After surviving from reliability and validity tests, a structural equation modeling (SEM) with latent variables was specified and estimated using Mplus. From the study results, we found significant positive relationships between ES, PP, and PS, but significant negative relationships between ES, PE, PPV, and PS. Also, our research found PE and PPV as potential mediators on ES-PS relation. We propose recommendations from three aspects to improve farmers’ satisfaction with future implementations of the homestead withdrawal policy. Our results provided new insights into how to improve the performance of homestead withdrawal policy.
Highlights
Over the past 40 years, the urbanization level of China has increased dramatically, from 17.9% in 1978 to 60.6% in 2019
First among the interesting insights we have gained from this study, the results shown in Tables 5 and 6 revealed that farmers’ economic status (ES) has a significant and positive effect on policy satisfaction (PS), with total factor loading at 0.632 including direct effect (β = 0.355; p < 0.001), through policy expectation (PE) (β = 0.059; p = 0.012), through policy perceived value (PPV)
The withdrawal of homesteads is an important way to enhance the efficiency of rural construction land use, and an effective means of improving the rural living environment
Summary
Over the past 40 years, the urbanization level of China has increased dramatically, from 17.9% in 1978 to 60.6% in 2019. With the advancement of the urbanization process, the rural homestead utilization area does not appear to be decreasing as initially expected. The total rural resident population of China is decreasing at a rate of 1.6% each year. The area of homesteads in rural areas is increasing by more than 1,000,000 km per year, with an annual growth rate of 1% [4]. The total area of rural homesteads in China has been expanding, the phenomenon of idle and abandoned housing sites such as “empty houses” and “hollow villages” has become more frequent and continues intensifying the trend [5]. How to effectively utilize idle rural homesteads has become a pressing issue
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