Migration and Household Investment in Rural China

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Machinery Investment Decision and Off-Farm Employment in Rural China (2012, background): “Studies find that 20-70 percent of the household income is from off-farm sources (Adams 2001; Benjamin 1992; De Brauw et al. 2002; De Brauw and Rozelle 2008; Wang, Herzfeld and Glauben 2007; Yu and Zhao 2009).”
Moving off the farm: Land institutions to facilitate structural transformation and agricultural productivity growth in China (2012, unknown): “The fact that remittances from migration were found to have increased spending on housing and consumer durables but not productive investment (de Brauw & Rozelle, 2008) may point toward a need of exploring this issue more carefully.”
Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency: evidence from China (2015, unknown): “…production (Giles 2006); (c) encourage investment in agricultural productive assets (Zhao 2002), housing and other consumer durable goods (de Brauw and Rozelle 2008), and children’s education (Chen et al. 2009a); and, (d) contribute to the diversification of the rural economies of the…”
Positional spending and status seeking in rural China (2011, background): “Moreover, new occasions for giftgiving (Yan 1996) and large increases in conspicuous consumptive investment relative to productive investment (de Brauw and Rozelle 2008) could be indicative of status-seeking as well as norm-induced herding.”