Research Article

Land Circulation, Scale Operation, and Agricultural Carbon Reduction Efficiency: Evidence from China

Table 5

Test results on mediating effect.

Explanatory variablesScale operationAgricultural CRE
Model (7)Model (8)Model (9)

Land circulation0.292 (0.118)0.407 (0.121)0.317 (0.121)
Scale operation−0.119 (0.059)0.353 (0.123)
Square of scale operation−0.112 (0.028)
Control variablesYesYesYes
Region fixed effectsYesYesYes
Time fixed effectsYesYesYes
F-statistic329.3722.2923.54
R20.590.670.70
Observation420420420