Affiliation:
1. College of Public Administration, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
2. Section Economics, Wageningen University, 6706 KN Wageningen, The Netherlands
3. China Resources & Environment and Development Academy, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Abstract
Developing economies face challenges in improving the overall performance of farms. An essential challenge could be a substantial shift in the agricultural labor force to off-farm sectors during the process of economic transition. This paper estimates the causal impact of migration on the economic and environmental performance of rice farms, measured using technical efficiency and fertilizer use efficiency. A stochastic frontier analysis, based on the survey data collected in four regions of China, is applied, finding an average technical efficiency of 0.92, while the average fertilizer use efficiency is only 0.22. The results of propensity score matching suggest that migration has a marginally negative impact on both technical efficiency and fertilizer use efficiency of their rice production, while the impact is amplified for farmers who participated in migration more intensively. This would imply that the government policy on the migration of rural households might also need to consider this impact.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
National Social Science Fund of China
National Key R&D Program of China
Dutch Research Council
Humanity and Social Science Project of Ministry of Education, China
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Jiangsu Department of Education
Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and Ministry of Science and Technology, China
Subject
Plant Science,Agronomy and Crop Science,Food Science
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