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China’s urbanisation process is unique compared to that of other developed economies in that while the rural population is migrating to the cities in large numbers, the area of rural homestead use also continues to increase. This research uses macro data and a threshold model to further analyse this phenomenon of “farmers leaving while rural homest...
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... first examined the threshold effect of the RRUM on the IARH in order to analyse the impact of rural-urban migration on the use of rural homesteads, and the results are shown in Table 3. The regression results show that the existence of two thresholds for the RRUM caused a structural change in its relationship with the IARH. ...Context 2
... test the robustness of the results, we used a fixed effects model to analyse the relationship between the quadratic term of the RRUM and IARH (column 3 of Table 3). It can be seen that the squared term of the RRUM was negative at the 1% significance level, further validating the inverted U-shaped relationship between the RRUM and the IARH. ...Context 3
... can be seen that the squared term of the RRUM was negative at the 1% significance level, further validating the inverted U-shaped relationship between the RRUM and the IARH. In the analysis of the other control variables (column for Panel Model in Table 3), it can be seen that the regional rural-urban income gap significantly suppressed the IARH, with an effect coefficient of −0.295. This suggests that as the rural-urban income gap increases, the migrating populations may no longer return to their hometowns and the demand for new rural homesteads will fall. ...
