Migration and household investment in rural China |
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| Authors: | Alan DE BRAUW Scott ROZELLE |
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| Institution: | aResearch Fellow, Food Consumption and Nutrition Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC 20006, United States;bShorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States |
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| Abstract: | In this paper, we demonstrate how household investment is affected by participation in migration in rural China. We both describe investment patterns across different regions of China and by households with different experiences with migration. We then describe a set of hypotheses about the relationship between migration and investment, and test the hypotheses using household data that we collected in rural China in 2000. We find that in areas with median incomes that are more than twice the poverty line, migration is associated with investment in housing and other consumer durables that is 20% higher than the average. We find no evidence of a link between migration and productive investment. |
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| Keywords: | Migration Household investment Housing Dynamic panel data Rural China |
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