(Forthcoming in The Review of Economics and Statistics) Precautionary Behavior, Migrant Networks and Household Consumption Decisions: An Empirical Analysis Using Household Panel Data from Rural China*

By J. Giles, Kyeong-won Yoo. 2006

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Access to Markets and Rural Poverty: Evidence from Household Consumption in China (2013, background): “Giles and Yoo (2007) show that precautionary savings are lower for both poor and nonpoor households in the villages with larger migrant network. and agroclimatic features of a county: the mean and variance of elevation and of slope, average annual rainfall, and average temperature, among others.”
People's Republic of China (2011, result): “The Guangxi Integrated Agricultural Development Project (GIADP) is an example of a development effort aimed at increasing rural household income in China through three project components: community infrastructure development, agricultural production and marketing support, and rural environmental imp”
Chronic and Transient Poverty: Measurement and Estimation, with Evidence from China (2010, background): “Giles and Yoo (2005) show that precautionary motives lead to lower consumption of households exposed to agro-climatic sources of risk, and Park (2005) finds that households in China’s poor areas store inefficiently high levels of grain in response to expected price variability.”
Can China’s Rural Elderly Count on Support from Adult Children? Implications of Rural-to-Urban Migration (2010, background): “Studies of the impact of migration on migrant households suggest that migration is associated with higher income and consumption (de Brauw and Giles 2008; Du et al. 2005), facilitates risk-coping and risk-management (Giles, 2006; Giles and Yoo 2007 ), and is associated with higher levels of local i”