To explore the impacts of agricultural socialized services on the resilience of agricultural economy and its mechanism, this study is based on the panel data of 29 provincial-level regions in China from 2010 to 2023 (the data do not include those of Shanghai, Xizang, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions, the same below). Entropy method is employed to determine the level of agricultural economic resilience across regions. Furthermore, the econometric models including a panel fixed-effects model, a mediation effect model, and a panel threshold regression model are construct to analyze the mechanisms through which agricultural socialized services influence agricultural economic resilience. The results indicate that the agricultural socialized services significantly enhance the resilience of the agricultural economy. These findings remain robust after conducting a series of endogeneity and robustness checks. The mechanism analysis reveals that agricultural socialized services contribute to economic resilience by increasing farmers' income and improving agricultural labor productivity. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the positive impact of agricultural socialized services is more pronounced in eastern China and non-major grain-producing regions. The threshold regression results suggest a nonlinear relationship between the influence of agricultural socialized services and the scale of agricultural operations, with greater effectiveness observed in areas characterized by smaller-scale farming. Based on these findings, policy recommendations including actively optimizing the institutional framework for agricultural socialized services, formulating region-specific development strategies, promoting high-quality service provision are put forward to ultimately enhance the resilience of the agricultural economy.
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