Chronic Illness and Income Diversification in Rural China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15490232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wenmei Liao (0000-0001-6527-5310, Jiangxi Agricultural University), Jiawei Wang (0009-0000-2145-7526, Jiangxi Agricultural University), Ying Lin (0000-0003-4979-940X, Xi'an Jiaotong University, corresponding author), Yao Wang (0000-0002-7024-4233, Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 3350-3350 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph18073350 |
| PMID | 33805068 |
| OpenAlex | W3136352061 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
Off-farm diversification offers an important pathway out of poverty while health-impaired rural farmers can hardly seize the opportunity in developing countries. This paper investigates how chronic illness shapes livelihood structure and income generation in rural China. Our sample consists of 3850 rural households in Southern China and we rely on instrumental variable regressions to identify causal effects. We find that farmers with chronic illness tend to diversify towards local off-farm employments, rather than migrants, since local off-farm employments are more likely to act in a strategically complementary way to farming. Further analysis shows that income returns of diversification tend to be substantially higher for the health-impaired. While the relationship between diversification and income presents a conventional inverted U shape for the healthy, it is best categorized as upward sloping with diminishing marginal effects for farmers with chronic illness
Agriculture · Business · China · Chronic poverty · Demographic economics · Development economics · Diversification (marketing strategy · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Livelihood · Poverty · Poverty reduction · Socioeconomics · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Agricultural risk and resilience · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |