Whether the Agricultural Insurance Policy Achieves Green Income Growth—Evidence from the Implementation of China’s Total Cost Insurance Pilot Program

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ID15508346
AuthorsZhifeng Zhang (0000-0002-4411-4259, Qingdao University), Haodong Xu (0000-0003-3987-5309, Qingdao University), Shuangshuang Shan (0000-0001-6084-9055, Qingdao University, corresponding author), Qingzhi Liu (0000-0002-0319-204X, Shandong University of Science and Technology, corresponding author), Yuqi Lu (0000-0002-9602-3551, East China University of Political Science and Law)
Year2022
Volume19
Issue2
Pages852-852
Publication date2022-01-13
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601
PublisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/ijerph19020852
PMID35055674
OpenAlexW4206576826
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited18

With the rise and popularization of the concept of green sustainable development, green income growth of agricultural insurance policies has attracted wide attention. Whether green income growth can be achieved has become an important criterion for measuring an agricultural insurance policy. In this context, this paper attempts to test whether the agricultural insurance policy achieves green income growth. Based on the panel data of 31 provinces (the research sample of this paper selects 31 provincial-level units (province for short) in China, including 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions and 4 municipalities directly under the central government. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macau Special Administrative Region and Taiwan Province are not included in the research sample) from 2009 to 2020 in China, this paper empirically evaluates the triple-effect of total cost insurance pilot program (TCI) on farmers' income, environment and public health by employing a difference-in-difference model (DID). The results show that TCI increases farmers' income, but deteriorates the environment and residents' health without achieving green income growth. In the analysis of heterogeneity, compared with central and western regions, farmers' income is more likely to increase in the eastern regions. However, environmental pollution is more severe, and residents' health deteriorates more, in eastern regions. In addition, the positive effect of TCI on farmers' income and the deterioration of residents' health is more obvious in areas with a higher degree of damage, while the negative effect of TCI on the environment is more obvious in areas with a lower degree of damage. Furthermore, the mechanism analysis shows that TCI not only promotes the increase in farmers' income through insurance density, but also affects the environment and residents' health through straw burning. Therefore, the government should raise the subsidy standard for farmers to use straw-processing equipment and also to implement differentiated subsidies in regions with different levels of economic development and areas with different degrees of damage

Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Business · China · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics · Panel data · Sample (material · Socioeconomics · Agricultural risk and resilience · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

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