Conservation Payments, Liquidity Constraints and Off-Farm Labor: Impact of the Grain for Green Program on Rural Households in China

Table 1. Descriptive statistics of participating and nonparticipating households.

	Participants (as of 2005)	Nonparticipants
Samples in Panel Data No. of households in sample - 1999	0	270
No. of households in sample - 2002	201	69
No. of households in sample - 2004	230	40
No. of individuals in sample - 1999	0	1,010
No. of individuals in sample - 2002	768	242
No. of individuals in sample - 2004	935	155
Program Characteristics - 2004 Number of years in program (years)	4.5	n.a.
Program area (mu)	9.3	n.a.
Ratio of program area to total land	48.7	n.a.
holdings (%) Household Characteristics - 2002 Schooling of household head	4.8	4.7
(years) Age of household head (years)	47	48
Total land holdings (mu)	13.7	10.0
Number of household members	3.8	3.6
over age 15 (persons) Average age of household members	39	41
over age 15 (years) Average educational attainment of	4.7	4.4
household members over age 15 (years) Asset Holdings per Capita (1999) Livestock assets (yuan)	88	113
Consumer durables (yuan)	461	481
Fixed productive assets (yuan)	231	147
Loans, productive (yuan)	35	25
Loans, consumption (yuan)	459	192
Bank savings (yuan)	42	14
Total asset value (yuan)	1,338	972

Note: Zero values were included when calculating the means for asset holdings per capita.