Could land reallocation partially explain the decision of off-farm employment of farmers in rural China? Using an individual-level survey data,we find that there is no effect of land reallocation on the individuals...Could land reallocation partially explain the decision of off-farm employment of farmers in rural China? Using an individual-level survey data,we find that there is no effect of land reallocation on the individuals' decision on off-farm employments.However,there is a robust negative effect of land reallocation on the amount of time that villagers devote to off-farm work.The first result is attributed to the large earnings difference between farm and nonfarm work;the second result is attributed to the fact that village leaders reallocate land from households short of farm labor to households that farm intensively.展开更多
基金The authors thank the editor and two anonymous referees for insightful comments and are very grateful to James Kai-sing Kung for making available the dataset for analysis.Yi Che gratefully acknowledges the support from the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.71703099)Shanghai International Institute of Finance and Economics.Zuojun Fan gratefully acknowledges the financial support from the Fund of Humanities and Social Sciences Project of the Chinese Ministry of Education(No.16JZD017)+1 种基金Yan Zhang gratefully acknowledges the support from the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.71703085)Special Research Fund of China-ASEAN Collaborative Innovation Center for Regional Development and Development Program of the Chinese Ministry of Education for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Teams(No.CWZ201514).
文摘Could land reallocation partially explain the decision of off-farm employment of farmers in rural China? Using an individual-level survey data,we find that there is no effect of land reallocation on the individuals' decision on off-farm employments.However,there is a robust negative effect of land reallocation on the amount of time that villagers devote to off-farm work.The first result is attributed to the large earnings difference between farm and nonfarm work;the second result is attributed to the fact that village leaders reallocate land from households short of farm labor to households that farm intensively.
