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

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• 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
• 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

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.

Free Research Field

農業経済