Education and allocative efficiency household income growth during rural reforms in China

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Yang, DT
• 署名单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2003.12.007
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 137-162
• 关键词: education; market liberalization; input allocation; rural income; CHINA

摘要

This paper studies the contribution of schooling to rural income in China during factor market liberalization between 1986 and 1995. The relaxation of controls permitted farm households to reallocate productive inputs from agriculture to nonagricultural activities. It is hypothesized that education facilitates this adjustment. Panel data from Sichuan province suggest that schooling enhanced the ability of farmers to devote labor and capital to nonfarm production given the evidence that less-than-optimum levels of these inputs were allocated to nonagricultural uses. During the transition, the expansion of nonfarm activities contributed significantly to household income growth. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.