AUTHOR=Zhou Deshui , Li Lele 

TITLE=Farming experience, personal characteristics, and entrepreneurial decisions of urban residents: Empirical evidence from China

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.859936

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.859936

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Entrepreneurship is an important way to promote the solution of social employment problems. Using data from the 2016 China Labor Force Dynamic Survey (CLDS), We explore the influence of farming experience on urban residents' entrepreneurial decisions at the theoretical and empirical levels. Probit model with instrumental variables method was used to analyze the influence of farming experience on urban residents' entrepreneurial decisions, while mediating effects model was used to test its channels of action. The results show that: (1) Farming experience can contribute to the entrepreneurial decision of urban residents relative to those without experience in farming. To overcome possible endogeneity issues, an Eprobit model based on the estimation of instrumental variables was used for testing and the above findings still hold. (2) Heterogeneity tests based on Age, City Type, and Physical Capital found that this effect was more significant in urban residents with Non-capital cities, middle-aged groups, and High material capital. (3) Farming experience indirectly drives entrepreneurial decisions through the mediating role of promoting positive personality traits such as "Optimism" and "Mutual aid consciousness". Therefore, farming experience has a positive effect on urban residents' entrepreneurial decisions and helps to understand the deeper influence of micro-individual characteristics on entrepreneurial decisions in the urbanization process.