Impact of Sloping Land Conversion Program on off-farm employment

BMEI 2011 - Proceedings 2011 International Conference on Business Management and Electronic Information

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 323-327

  Guo, Bin ^a   Yao, Shunbo ^a   Wang, Zhengbing ^a   Zhen, Jing ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Difference in Differences Method; Matching Method; Off Farm Employment; Slopping Land Conversion Program

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; LAND CONVERSION; LOESS PLATEAU; MATCHING METHODS; OFF-FARM EMPLOYMENT; PANEL DATA; RURAL LABORS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SLOPING LAND;

EMPLOYMENT;

FARMS;

EID: 80052185409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBMEI.2011.5920460     Document Type: Conference Paper

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