The educational and labor market consequences of teenage exposure to rural land decollectivization in China

Zhi-An Hu, Wei Huang, Wei Luo, Wuyue You and Chuanchuan Zhang

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, vol. 228, issue C

Abstract: China's land decollectivization reform implemented around 1980 expanded the agricultural and nonagricultural sectors in rural areas and thereby increased the opportunity cost of schooling for teenagers. Combining the staggered adoption of the reform across regions with individual life history data, we show that teenagers substituted out of school and into agricultural and nonagricultural work following the reform. Using population census data, we further show that teenage exposure to the reform reduced the probability of completing high school by 2.0–2.2 percentage points, the probability of nonagricultural employment by 1.5–1.6 percentage points, and income by 3.6–4.7 percent.

Keywords: Land reform; Decollectivization; Education; Employment; Income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I25 J22 J24 P26 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106771

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