Empirical Methods for Labor Supply Analysis of Farm Households and Their Application to Microdata on Chinese Households

• Project/Area Number: 23580299
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Agro-economics
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: SONODA Tadashi 名古屋大学, 経済学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (60329844)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: 労働供給 / 中国の農家 / マイクロデータ / ミクロ計量分析 / 生産性 / 制約的な労働市場 / 部分識別 / 不均衡モデル / 市場労働供給 / 確率的生産フロンティア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study investigates reasons why Chinese farm households do not allocate more time of their members to non-farm wage employment to improve their income. For this purpose, it proposes new empirical methods to study their labor supply behavior. It finds that the head of Chinese farm households had been offered a relatively low wage or his or her work hours had been constrained in the labor market to some extent. It also finds that more participation in local wage work or migration could have a tradeoff for farm productivity.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Why Do Household Heads in Rural China Not Work More in the Market? (2014)
  • Author(s): Tadashi Sonoda
  • Journal Title: Singapore Economic Review Volume: 59 Issue: 01 Pages: 18-18
  • DOI: 10.1142/s0217590814500088
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Estimating the Production Elasticity of Labor: A Partial Identification Approach (2014)
  • Author(s): Tadashi Sonoda and Ashok Mishra
  • Organizer: China Meeting of Econometric Society
  • Place of Presentation: Xiamen University, China
  • Year and Date: 2014-06-26
• [Presentation] Tradeoff between Farm Profitability and the Desire for Market Work: An Empirical Analysis of Chinese Farm Households
  • Author(s): Tadashi Sonoda
  • Organizer: AAEA Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, USA