Do Poor Rural Households Produce Less Grain than Non-poor Rural Households

作     者：Ling Ma Xiaoyun Liu Xian Xin 

作者机构：College of Economics and Management and Center for Rural Development PolicyChina Agricultural University College of Humanities and DevelopmentChina Agricultural University Center for Rural Development PolicyChina Agricultural University 

出 版 物：《China & World Economy》 (中国与世界经济（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第21卷第6期

页      面：22-36页

核心收录：

学科分类：120301[管理学-农业经济管理] 12[管理学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 1203[管理学-农林经济管理] 1202[管理学-工商管理] 0201[经济学-理论经济学] 07[理学] 070104[理学-应用数学] 0701[理学-数学] 

基　　金：support from the International Development Research Centre/Centre for International Governance Innovation the Young China Scholars Research and Policy Engagement Network 

主　　题：decomposition grain output inputs poor 

摘      要：China＇s poor rural households produce substantially less grain compared with non-poor rural households. The present paper applies a decomposition approach and uses China＇s rural household survey data to investigate the causes of this grain output gap The paper first compares the grain output gap between poor and non-poor rural households, and then decomposes the gap into differences in yield and area sown, The results indicate that the gap in grain output mainly results from differences in the amount of inputs used in production. Differences in the number of labor days and the level of intermediate inputs account for 13.6 and 47.S percent of the gap, respectively. Poor rural households are also less efficient in their use of intermediate inputs, which contributes to 13.2percent of the gap. However, the efficiency of poor households＂ labor days reduces the gap by 7.2 percent, while agricultural physical capital, househoM head education and agricultural training have no substantial impact on the household grain output gap.