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

39


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




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