demand for machine services. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion of machine rentals and machine … agriculture with mechanization and active land rental markets …

in agriculture. The empirical analysis shows that an increase in real wages has induced the substitution of labor by …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … population, making it difficult to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to … incomes of migrants to those who applied to migrate, but whose names were not drawn in the lottery, after allowing for the …

filling in the roles vacated by the migrants. In contrast, the income effect dominates the impact of migration on the left …

migrants upgrading their education and changing their locations and occupations. This results in large, sustained benefits to … the migrants? immediate family, who have substantially higher consumption, durable asset ownership, savings, and dietary …

migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity problem: households self-select into migration, and among households involved …