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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"off-farm work"”.
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Nature Reserves and Households in Rural China: Migration, Off-farm Work, and Income
… aspects of rural households: migration, local off-farm work, and off-farm income. This thesis also examines the heterogeneous impacts of nature reserves across administrative levels, lengths of existence time, and types. To reduce selection bias, propensity scores matching (PSM) is carried out …
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United States Meat Goat Production Economic Performance Measures: A Stochastic Production Frontier Analysis
… that focused on the marketing, technology, farmer attitudes and farm/farmer characteristics associated with U.S. meat goat production. Since the motivations for the follow-up costs and returns survey were to estimate U.S. meat goat farm efficiency and determine the efficiency drivers, we …
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Rural Credit Markets in Ethiopia: Coexistence, Persistence, and Demand
… borrows and lends are relatively better-off households. The probability of being a simultaneous borrower and lender is higher for households with strong village level networks. Moreover, households that are affected by common shock are more likely to be a simultaneous borrower and lender. …
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The impacts of rural-to-urban labor migration on the rural environment in Chongqing municipality, southwest China: Mediating roles of rural household livelihoods and community development
… development. A comprehensive conceptual framework was developed in this study that incorporated the rural livelihoods approach and the interactional theory of community development into analyzing environmental consequences of rural migration. The core assumption was that household livelihoods …