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The Impact of Positive Agricultural Income Shocks on Rural Chinese Households / Leight, Jessica.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Leight, Jessica.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural Investment.
- Agriculture.
- Climate Change and Agriculture.
- Crops and Crop Management Systems.
- De Facto Governments.
- Democratic Government.
- Diversification.
- Food Security.
- Governance.
- Household Welfare.
- Income Shock.
- Inequality.
- Internal Migration.
- Investment.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Rural Labor.
- Local Subjects:
- Agricultural Investment.
- Agriculture.
- Climate Change and Agriculture.
- Crops and Crop Management Systems.
- De Facto Governments.
- Democratic Government.
- Diversification.
- Food Security.
- Governance.
- Household Welfare.
- Income Shock.
- Inequality.
- Internal Migration.
- Investment.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Rural Labor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (67 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2018.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- In the post-collectivization period, rural Chinese households were required to sell part of their grain output to the state at a below-market price; however, increases in this quota price beginning in 1993 generated substantial positive income shocks. These income shocks also varied cross-sectionally in accordance with crop composition given that quotas were systematically larger for rice-producing households, generating a quasi-random source of variation in the size of the shock driven by climatic variation in suitability for rice cultivation. Households induced to experience relatively larger income shocks show evidence of decreased agricultural investment, increased investment in non-agricultural businesses, and increased migration as households gain increased income, consistent with the hypothesis that credit constraints may have constrained some households from entering non-agricultural production ex ante. In addition, there is evidence that these households were concentrated among households who had not previously diversified out of agriculture.
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