Are farm households' land renting and migration decisions inter-related in rural China?

NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 345-362

  Feng, Shuyi ^a,b   Heerink, N ^b  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bivariate probit model; Household model; Market imperfection; Seemingly unrelated regression

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC REFORM; ESTIMATION METHOD; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INTERNAL MIGRATION; LABOR MARKET; LAND TENURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JIANGXI;

EID: 48549088477     PISSN: 15735214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1573-5214(08)80025-5     Document Type: Article

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