Abstract: The level of rent pressure on the agricultural transferred population inflowing into cities is directly related to the process of citizenization of the agricultural transferred population. Based on the national monitoring data of the floating population in 2016, this paper applies the Oaxaca mean difference decomposition and counterfactual distribution MM quantile decomposition to conduct a measurement. The findings show that there is a significant intergenerational difference in the rent pressure on the agricultural transferred population, and the “new generation” of the agricultural transferred population born after the 80s is carrying a higher absolute pressure value and relative pressure ratio of rent than those carried by the older generation. There is a kind of intergenerational rent discrimination against the “new generation” in the housing leasing markets in cities. The degree of intergenerational discrimination shows a U-shaped changing tendency along with the increasing of the degree of rent payment pressure. The conclusions have positive reference value in promoting the fair pricing of the urban housing rental markets and in promoting the willingness and process of the “citizenization”conversion of the new generation of agricultural migrants.

Key words: rent burden, quantile decomposition, intergenerational differences, agricultural transferred population