How does property rights intensity affect rental arrangements in farmland transfer contracts? A dual perspective on property rights security and perception

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Strengthened property rights security significantly increases rent levels by reducing contractual risks, enhancing mutual trust, and promoting the adoption of sharecropping contracts that optimize return–risk allocation.

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Original abstract

Introduction Rational rental arrangements are essential for market-oriented farmland transfer and safeguard farmers’ land property income. Property rights intensity fundamentally determines land residual claim allocation and shapes farmland rental arrangements. Existing literature generally adopts a single-dimensional measure of property rights, ignoring the distinct effects of objective property rights security and subjective property rights perception. It also neglects the linkage between rent levels and rent allocation modes, leaving the mechanism connecting property rights intensity to rental arrangements underexplored. Against the backdrop of China’s farmland Three-Rights Separation reform, this study aims to fill these research gaps. Methods This study adopts a dual perspective of objective property rights security and subjective property rights perception. Based on 2015–2017 household-level data from the China Family Database (CFD), it empirically examines the impact of farmland property rights intensity on transfer contract rents and its underlying mechanism. Results The two dimensions of property rights intensity exert differentiated effects on farmland transfer rents. Strengthened property rights security significantly increases rent levels by reducing contractual risks, enhancing mutual trust, and promoting the adoption of sharecropping contracts that optimize return–risk allocation. In contrast, clearer property rights perception elevates farmers’ risk aversion, reduces the likelihood of selecting sharecropping contracts, and thereby restricts rent growth, producing a suppressing effect. Discussion This study expands the multi-dimensional connotation of farmland property rights intensity and clarifies the intrinsic transmission mechanism between property rights intensity and rental arrangements. It remedies the deficiencies of single-dimensional property rights measurement and separated research on rent formation. The findings provide theoretical support and empirical evidence for improving farmland rent pricing mechanisms, standardizing transfer contract governance, and further deepening China’s farmland system reform.

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