Digital Economy, Transfer of Agricultural Labor Force and Agricultural Land Production Efficiency

li liuyanQu Manman^*

• School of Social Work, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang City, Henan Province, China, Henan, China

The digital economy is currently a new driving force and engine for China's economic growth. In the face of shortages of production factors, further exploration is needed to study whether the digital economy has an impact on agricultural land production efficiency. This paper uses the entropy method with balanced panel data from 31 provinces in China from 2009 to 2023 to measure the development level of China's digital economy, and studies the impact and mechanism of the digital economy on agricultural land production efficiency. The empirical analysis shows that: (1) Using the two -way fixed -effects model, it is found that the digital economy can significantly improve agricultural land production efficiency, and it has passed a series of endogeneity tests, robustness tests, and threshold tests. (2) Through heterogeneity analysis, it is found that in the eastern, central, and northeastern regions, as well as in the main grain -producing areas, the role of the digital economy in improving agricultural land production efficiency is more significant. (3) The mediating effect analysis shows that the digital economy can improve agricultural land production efficiency by promoting the transfer of agricultural labor. Therefore, from the perspective of the digital economy, this study provides policy implications for effectively taking measures to further improve agricultural land production efficiency.