Testing Asset Dynamics for Poverty Traps in Rural China

被引:7
作者
Zhou, Li [1 ]
Turvey, Calum G. [2 ]
机构
[1] Nanjing Agr Univ, Coll Econ & Management, Nanjing 210095, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
[2] Cornell Univ, Dyson Sch Appl Econ & Management, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
来源
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS-REVUE CANADIENNE D AGROECONOMIE | 2015年 / 63卷 / 01期
关键词
PERSISTENT POVERTY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; CONSUMPTION; RISK; INCOME; ADAPTATION; ECONOMICS; LIVESTOCK; DROUGHT; IMPACT;
D O I
10.1111/cjag.12042
中图分类号
F3 [农业经济];
学科分类号
0202 ; 020205 ; 1203 ;
摘要
This paper quantifies the link between agricultural income, caloric intake, and asset-based poverty in rural China. The analysis employs data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey including 1,279 households in eight survey years. The balanced data models are then estimated to reveal the role that various shocks (e.g., prices and climate/weather) play in determining the asset dynamics between different income groups using four different asset indexes which cover comprehensive, fixed, productive, and consumable assets. To capture absolute asset dynamics, a fourth-degree polynomial function was used in a three-stage least squares system made up of an asset index, caloric intake, and farm income. The empirical results do not show evidence of a poverty trap based on multiple equilibriums. Le present article vise a quantifier le lien entre le revenu agricole, l'apport calorique et la pauvrete fondee sur les actifs en milieu rural en Chine. Nous avons utilise des donnees tirees de l'enquete China Health and Nutrition Survey realisee aupres de 1 279 menages au cours de huit annees. Nous avons estime des modeles pour panels cylindres afin de mettre en lumiere le role de certains facteurs (tels que les prix et le climat ou les conditions meteorologiques) dans la determination de la dynamique des actifs de diverses categories de revenu comprenant quatre indices d'actifs dont les actifs totaux, les immobilisations corporelles, les actifs productifs et les actifs consommables. Afin de determiner la dynamique absolue des actifs, nous avons utilise une fonction polynomiale de degre 4 dans un systeme d'equations estime par les triples moindres carres (3SLS) expliquant l'indice des actifs, l'apport calorique et le revenu agricole. Selon nos resultats empiriques, il n'existe pas de spirales de pauvrete liees a la notion d'equilibres multiples.
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页码:129 / 162
页数:34
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