Cross-Regional Machinery Services and Agricultural Prices in Chinese Villages, 2003-2018

Two original datasets from China analyze the impact of cross-regional agricultural machinery services on market prices. The data includes an unbalanced village-level panel of 265 villages across three provinces from 2003 to 2018 and a cross-sectional survey of 187 service providers. The research was authored by Zifeng Xu and published on figshare in 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between service market share and local prices based on the described 'efficiency-to-price' transmission chain.
• Analyzing the moderating effect of farming season flexibility on service competition and routing efficiency.
• Comparing total factor productivity (TFP) between cross-regional and within-region machinery service providers.
• Evaluating policy alternatives to direct machinery subsidies for smallholder farmers in developing countries.

Strengths

• Combines panel data (677 village-year observations) with cross-sectional provider data for a multi-level analysis.
• Covers a 15-year time span (2003-2018) across three major Chinese provinces (Jilin, Jiangsu, Sichuan).
• Employs advanced econometric methods (two-way fixed-effects, instrumental variable models, propensity score matching) as described.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the primary datasets is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the three studied provinces in China.

Provenance

Source

Original research by Zifeng Xu.

Collection Method

Village-level panel surveys and provider cross-sectional surveys.

Time Range

2003-2018

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 05:42:49; freshness should be verified.

Geography

265 villages across Jilin, Jiangsu, and Sichuan provinces, China.