Trade-offs between international migration and agricultural commercialization: evidence frrom Kyrgyzstan

Barchynai Kimsanova, Golib Sanaev and Thomas Herzfeld

No 334559, 97th Annual Conference, March 27-29, 2023, Warwick University, Coventry, UK from Agricultural Economics Society - AES

Abstract: This paper analyzes the relationship between international migration, labor, remittances, and agricultural commercialization in Kyrgyzstan using nationally representative household panel surveys covering eight years from 2013 to 2020. Unlike other studies, we focus on evaluating the impact of international migration on total farm commercialization, including crop, livestock, and live animals. We use quantile regression via moments and a three-stage least squares method to overcome the potential endogeneity of migration, labor, and remittances. Overall results show that sending household members abroad has a significant labor-loss effect on households with a consequent impact on farm commercialization. Remittances only partially compensate for losses for households with the lowest level of commercialization. Furthermore, the quantile regressions show little heterogeneity between the selected quantiles, except for the number of migrants, which is detrimental to the lowest level of commercialization

Keywords: Agribusiness; International Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17
Date: 2023-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-cis, nep-dev, nep-int and nep-mig
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.334559

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