... effects Rural poverty H41 H54 J21 J24 National Natural Science Foundation of China 71903185 Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences XDA20010303 UN-Environment-International Ecosystem Management Partnership (UNEP-IEMP) Off-farm...

... on the returns to education in rural China, but also provide a basis for diagnosing the changes of rural labor market in the early twenty-first century. I2 J24 J31 Since the introduction of economic reforms in China in the late 1970s, China’s rural economy has experienced rapid growth. The rural...

... by OLS including λ ˆ as an additional regressor: C21 J24 J31 P25 The method we use to estimate schooling returns while addressing both endogeneity in one’s schooling and self-selection into off-farm work is the two-step procedure developed in Wooldridge (2002 , p. 586). Consider...