Farmers’ Economic Status and Satisfaction with Homestead Withdrawal Policy: Expectation and Perceived Value
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School of Public Administration, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
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Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(19), 7110; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17197110
Received: 14 August 2020 / Revised: 18 September 2020 / Accepted: 22 September 2020 / Published: 28 September 2020
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.
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Keywords:
homestead withdrawal; policy satisfaction; influencing factors; structural equation modeling
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Zhao, Y.; Cloutier, S.; Li, H. Farmers’ Economic Status and Satisfaction with Homestead Withdrawal Policy: Expectation and Perceived Value. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 7110. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17197110
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Zhao Y, Cloutier S, Li H. Farmers’ Economic Status and Satisfaction with Homestead Withdrawal Policy: Expectation and Perceived Value. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(19):7110. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17197110
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhao, Yaoyang; Cloutier, Scott; Li, Hongqing. 2020. "Farmers’ Economic Status and Satisfaction with Homestead Withdrawal Policy: Expectation and Perceived Value" Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 17, no. 19: 7110. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17197110
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