Impacts of Off-Farm Employment on IrrigationWater Efficiency in North China

被引：19
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作者：
Yin, Ning [1 ]
Huang, Qiuqiong [2 ]
Yang, Zhihai [1 ]
Wang, Yapeng [1 ]
机构：
[1] Huazhong Agr Univ, Coll Econ & Management, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Arkansas, Dept Agr Econ & Agribusiness, Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA
来源：
WATER | 2016年 / 8卷 / 10期
基金：
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词：
local off-farm employment; migration; irrigation water efficiency; groundwater; North China; WATER-USE EFFICIENCY; STOCHASTIC PRODUCTION FRONTIER; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; RESOURCE USE; MIGRATION; HOUSEHOLD; REMITTANCES; TECHNOLOGY; DECISIONS; VARIABLES;
D O I：
10.3390/w8100452
中图分类号：
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号：
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要：
This paper examines the impacts of off-farm employment on irrigation water efficiency (IWE) with a set of household level data collected in Hebei Province in North China. A major finding is that households with higher shares of laborers working off-farm locally seem to achieve higher IWEs. The effect of local off-farm employment is greater among those households that have made more efforts to use furrow irrigation. We also find that households with higher shares of elderly laborers and those with larger land holding are associated with lower IWEs. Households with better soil quality and those that pump from deeper wells are associated with higher IWEs.
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