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

Table 2. Descriptive statistics of labor allocation for participants and nonparticipants.

	Participants (as of 2005)		Nonparticipants
	1999	2004	1999	2004
Percent of individuals with off-farm work	23.9	32.4	28.2	30.8
Percent of individuals with farm work	69.1	67.4	69.4	76.7
Household members with off-farm work (persons)	0.72	1.24	0.93	1.15
Household members working on-farm (persons)	2.59	2.59	2.53	2.90
If the individual has off-farm work:	2002	2004	2002	2004
hours per day	9.2	9.6*	9.4	9.0*
days per year	171	188	196	164
months per year	6.7*	7.0	7.6*	6.3
annual earnings (yuan)	3,313*	4,305	4,339*	5,736
annual remittances (yuan)	1,936*	2,362	2,812*	3,180

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Note: * indicates that the average for participants and nonparticipants for the given year are
statistically significantly different.

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