When people can self-insure via migration, they may have less need for informal risk
sharing. At the same time, informal insurance may reduce the need to migrate. To …

This paper analyzes return migrants' self-employment decision upon their return to their
home villages, by using an original rural household survey conducted in Wuwei County …

This paper aims to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine investments, and
the demand for machine services using farm panel data from China. Recently, China's …

Since economic reforms began in 1978, the Chinese labor market has undergone a set of
remarkable transformations that have dramatically affected the working lives and welfare of …

We investigate the extent that Nigerian households engage in internal migration to ensure
against ex ante and ex post agricultural risk due to weather‐related variability and shocks …

Through decentralized targeting of input vouchers new agricultural input subsidy programs
aim to more effectively reach their objectives and target population. But, lingering fears of …

Recent research has shown that participation in migrant labor markets has led to substantial
increases in income for families in rural China. This article addresses the question of how …

This paper empirically estimates the return to education using twins data that the authors
collected from urban China. Our ordinary least-squares estimate shows that one year of …

Energy poverty is a crucial challenge for poverty alleviation in rural China. However, in
recent years, off-farm work has begun to play an increasingly important role in improving the …

We develop a test of precautionary behavior in the consumption decisions of rural
agricultural households. Among surveyed households facing a median level of consumption …