This study investigates the impact of the land rental market (LRM) on labor productivity in rural China. Particular … attention is given to farm and non-farm labor productivity. Using 2012 household-level data and a multinomial endogenous … switching treatment regression (MESTR) technique, we find that rural households renting-in farmland increased labor productivity …

escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low productivity. A land reform provides peasant families higher returns … for their investments in land, encouraging them to increase their productivity of land rather than their family size. This … decreases fertility and increases productivity in agriculture in the short and long runs. The European demographic history …

cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on subjective well-being in rural areas of northern Ethiopia …

We test the inverseness of fertility and labor supply for married women in Ethiopia to determine if previous research … addressing the endogeneity of fertility. Using data from the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) of Ethiopia, we use the husband … fertility and labor supply in Ethiopia, perhaps because the persistence of traditional family structures in the face of rising …

We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey … country. -- Ethiopia ; positional concern ; relative income …