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China’s Labor Transition and the Future of China’s Rural Wages and Employment
China labor force participation rural wages
2014/3/13
This paper contributes to the assessment of China’s rural labor markets. According to our data, the increase in off-farm employment that China experienced during the 1980s and 1990s continued during t...
Rural Households in a Changing Climate
climate change rural households adaptation risk-coping mechanisms
2012/10/22
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and ch...
What Determines Religious School Choice? Theory and Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
school choice madrasah education Bangladesh
2012/10/22
This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered Islamic and non-religious schools. We consider a two period framework where chil...
Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China
migration migrant networks consumption poverty wealth rural China
2012/10/23
In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of households in rural China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant i...
Rural Labor Absorption Efficiency in Urban Areas under Different Urbanization Patterns and Industrial Structures: The Case of China
rural labor absorption in urban areas urbanization industry structure DEA
2012/10/18
In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China’s urban areas absorb migrant workers under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-...
Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda
rural electrification energy access impact evaluation matching difference-in-difference
2012/10/18
Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in...
Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India
public goods social fragmentation water public policy India
2012/10/23
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. St...
Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in Rural Bangladesh
intergenerational inequality household wealth occupational mobility schooling mobility transition matrix Bangladesh
2012/10/24
Unique residential history data with retrospective information on parental assets are used to study household wealth mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son co...
Self-Employment of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
self-employment wages rural to urban migration selection bias magnets European Union
2012/10/26
This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose s...
Impact of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on Seasonal Labor Markets: Optimum Compensation and Workers' Welfare
labor contracts rural unemployment employment guarantee schemes public input optimal wage
2012/10/30
The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that provides a safety net for the rural poor with the potential to boost rural income, sta...
Poisoning the Mind: Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water Wells and Children's Educational Achievement in Rural Bangladesh
drinking water pollution Madrasa subjective well-being Bangladesh
2012/10/30
Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater with naturally occurring inorganic arsenic. Prolonged drinking of such water risk...
As their environment changes, migrants constitute an interesting group to study the effect of relative income on subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban migr...
Evolution of the Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Labor Market from 2002 to 2007
rural-urban migration labor market wage structure migration decision segmentation, China
2012/11/2
The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data sets. Our focus is on the rural-urban migration decision, the wage structure of mi...
Social-Family Network and Self-Employment: Evidence from Temporary Rural-Urban Migrants in China
social-family network self-employment rural-urban migrants
2012/11/1
We hypothesize that individuals with a larger social-family network are more likely to choose self-employment. We test this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size o...
An Economic Development Benchmarking System for Rural Michigan
Economic Development Benchmarking System Rural Michigan
2009/11/5
In this study the economic performance and conditions of Michigan's rural regions are
compared and contrasted to a comparison group of similar rural regions in neighboring
states, as well as to urb...