Seminar Series - Winter 2012
Next Seminar
Friday, February 17, 2012
12:30 - 1:30 pm Raitt 121 Dan Wang, Dept of Economics, UWProperty Rights, Labor Mobility and Land Investment Land rights security is a key issue in China’s rural reform. While the potential problems related to land insecurity have been widely recognized, there is a lack of evidence that measures the labor market consequences of frequent land redistribution. This paper employs a two-period household model to test two mechanisms that might explain how land rights security may facilitate migration. First, secured land rights promote specialization. Households with higher farm ability are more likely to stay on the farm while those with low farm ability switch to migration. Second, many households are not able to afford the initial human capital investment and other costs that are vital for migration. Land rights security increases the value of land and in turn pushes up the transfer value, which help to relax the credit constraints and facilitate labor mobility. The model also shows that while the effect of secured land rights on land-related investment is positive in a pure agricultural economy, this effect is not consistent when farmers have the choice to migrate. High skilled households on farm tend to invest more on land while low-skilled households invest more in human capital and lower their land-related investment. |
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Winter 2012 Seminar Schedule
January 6, 2012 Robert Pollak, Washington UniversityFamily Proximity, Childcare, and Women's Labor Force Attachment To download paper, please click here. |
January 13, 2012 Today's seminar is canceledUnfortunately our CSDE Seminar speaker today, James Walker from U of Wisconsin-Madison, was forced to cancel his trip due to inclement weather in Wisconsin. |
January 20, 2012 The seminar is cancelled this week |
January 27, 2012 Joe Cook, UW, Evans School of Public AffairsTime Savings and Water Supply in Rural Ethiopia
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February 3, 2012 Chris von Rueden, University of California, Santa Barbara
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February 10, 2012 Betsy Evans, UW, Linguistics
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February 17, 2012 Dan Wang, Dept of Economics, UWProperty Rights, Labor Mobility and Land Investment
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February 24, 2012 Irma Elo, U Penn, SociologyTBA |
March 2, 2012 TBATBA |
March 9, 2012 Natasha Rivers, UW, CSDE Research AssociateTBA |
