2023年9月，以我院教師郭廈副教授作為通訊作者的合作論文《The impact of cooperative membership on family farms’ income: evidence from China》在經濟學國際知名期刊《Applied Economics》上正式發表。

DOI：https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2022.2159009

文章摘要：

Family farms and agricultural cooperatives play important roles in modern agriculture in many countries. Different from smallholder farms in scale, family farms have been designated as the predominant unit of farming in China in the recent decade. However, studies on the relationship between cooperatives and family farms’ income have been less frequent. Using survey data of 769 planting family farms in China, and employing the endogenous switching regression model, we examine the impact of cooperative membership on family farms’ operating income (including total and per capita income). The empirical results show that, after controlling for the selection bias, cooperative membership exerts a positive and significant impact on family farms’ income. And the income increase of non-member family farms if they had participated in cooperatives is much higher than that of family farms who are already members of cooperatives. Moreover, family farms that are common members of cooperatives, obtaining more centralized services and engaging in grain crop farming, would benefit more from cooperative membership. Technology-related service, marketing and information are critical pathways via which cooperative membership would increase family farms’ income.

刊物簡介：

《Applied Economics》是經濟學SSCI二區、2023年期刊目錄B類期刊，為綜合類經濟學期刊，2022年的影響因子為2.51。

作者介紹：

郭廈，武漢大學金融學博士、技術經濟及管理碩士，愛爾蘭都柏林圣三一大學及都柏林大學發展實踐碩士，現為偉德體育官網副教授，碩士研究生導師。主要研究方向為農業經濟學，政治經濟學，發展經濟學等，在《經濟學動態》、《華中農業大學學報（社會科學版）》、《Applied Economics》、《Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics》等國內外學術期刊發表論文10余篇。主持國家社科基金一項，省部級基金兩項，校級及橫向課題數項。