Impact of cash crop cultivation on household income and migration decisions: Evidence from low-income regions in China

doi:10.1016/S2095-3119(20)63161-6

Journal of Integrative Agriculture ›› 2020, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (10): 2571-2581.DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(20)63161-6

所属专题：农业经济与管理合辑Agricultural Economics and Management

收稿日期:2019-07-30 出版日期:2020-10-01 发布日期:2020-09-08

Impact of cash crop cultivation on household income and migration decisions: Evidence from low-income regions in China

LI Meng¹, Christopher GAN², Wanglin MA³, Wei JIANG⁴

¹ College of Economics, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, P.R.China
² Department of Financial and Business Systems, Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce, Lincoln University, Lincoln 7647, Christchurch, New Zealand
³ Department of Global Value Chains and Trade, Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce, Lincoln University, Lincoln 7647, Christchurch, New Zealand
⁴ Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Pennsylvania State University, PA 16801, USA

Received:2019-07-30 Online:2020-10-01 Published:2020-09-08
Contact: Correspondence Wanglin MA, Tel: +64-34230237, E-mail: Wanglin.Ma@lincoln.ac.nz
About author:LI Meng, E-mail: Meng.Li@fafu.edu.cn;
Supported by:
This study was supported by the Humanities and Social Science Research Fund of the Ministry of Education of China (19YJC790063), the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian, China (2017J05112), and the Social Science Foundation of Fujian, China (FJ2017C076).

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Abstract:

This study examines the impact of cash crop cultivation on household income and migration decisions, using survey data collected from low-income regions in China. Given farmers decide themselves whether to cultivate cash crops, an endogenous treatment regression model that accounts for potential selection bias issue is used to analyze the data. The empirical results show that cash crop cultivation exerts a positive and statistically significant impact on household income, but it does not affect household migration decisions significantly. The disaggregated analyses reveal that cash crop cultivation significantly increases farm income but decreases off-farm income.

Key words: cash crop cultivation , household income , migration decisions , endogenous treatment regression model

. [J]. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2020, 19(10): 2571-2581.

LI Meng, Christopher GAN, Wanglin MA, Wei JIANG. Impact of cash crop cultivation on household income and migration decisions: Evidence from low-income regions in China[J]. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2020, 19(10): 2571-2581.

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