The Impact of Agricultural Technology Adaption on Income Inequality in Rural China

Shijun Ding, Laura Meriluoto, W. Reed (), Dayun Tao and Haitao Wu

Working Papers in Economics from University of Canterbury, Department of Economics and Finance

Abstract: This study analyzes the impact on income inequality of government efforts to increase agricultural incomes in rural China. It collects and analyzes survey data from 473 households in Yunnan, China in 2004. In particular, it investigates the effects of government efforts to promote improved upland rice technologies. Our analysis shows that farmers who adopted these technologies had incomes approximately 15 percent higher than non-adopters. Despite this relatively large increase, we estimate that the impact on income inequality was relatively slight. This is primarily due to the fact that lower-income farmers adopted the improved rice technology at rates that were roughly equivalent to those of higher-income farmers.

Keywords: Rural economic development; Chinese economic development; upland rice; rural-urban income inequality; agricultural income policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 O18 O53 Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2011-01-13
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-dev and nep-tra
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Working Paper: The Impact of Agricultural Technology Adoption of Income Inequality in Rural China (2010)
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