Migration and household decision on occupational choice and investment: Evidence from Bangladesh

Marup Hossain, Gulcan Onel and Conner Mullally

No 236136, 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Abstract: We study the roles of migration and remittances along with other income sources on investment decisions in rural Bangladesh. We estimate households’ investment equations conditional on their participation in and income from alternative (farm and non-farm) activities in the context of household’s current endowments and existing market structures. Using a true household-level panel data from rural Bangladesh covering 2000, 2004, and 2008 with 1223 sample points, we estimate the effects of migration and remittances on household’s investment in own cultivated land, land rent out to other households, livestock and non-farm business capital. Results show that remittances decrease household own cultivated land and also decrease land rent out to other households. We explain this result by controlling households labor endowments, education status and existing market imperfections. Our results also show that female headed households overall invest less in self-employment activities when they receive remittances. We find that remittances have little investment effects in general which is expected result given the overall low productive investment rate of remittance receiving households in Bangladesh.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Crop Production/Industries; International Development; Labor and Human Capital; Livestock Production/Industries; Production Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24
Date: 2016-05
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.236136

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