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Does agricultural cooperative membership influence off‐farm work decisions of farm couples?
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Vol.94(3), pp.831-855
2023
Abstract
Membership in agricultural cooperatives may influence intra‐household decisions regarding the division of household labor. However, the linkages between cooperative membership and labor allocation remain unexplored. To fill this gap, we examine the impact of cooperative membership on off‐farm work decisions of couples engaged in farming, using data collected from 595 banana farmers in China. The recursive bivariate probit model and endogenous‐treatment Poisson regression model are employed to address the self‐selection bias inherent in cooperative membership. The results show that cooperative membership increases the probability of participating in off‐farm work by 38% for husbands and 31% for wives. Having large households reduces the probability of husbands but increases that of wives working off‐farm. Cooperative membership is also associated with more time spent on off‐farm work and higher earnings for both husbands and wives. Our findings point to the potential of agricultural cooperatives to increase farm couples’ off‐farm employment, thus increasing household income and quality of life.
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- Title
- Does agricultural cooperative membership influence off‐farm work decisions of farm couples?
- Authors
- Hongyun Zheng - Huazhong Agricultural UniversityPuneet Vatsa - Lincoln UniversityWanglin Ma (Corresponding Author) - Lincoln UniversityDil Bahadur Rahut - Asian Development Bank Institute
- Publication details
- Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Vol.94(3), pp.831-855
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.1111/apce.12417
- ISSN
- 1467-8292; 1370-4788
- Copyright note
- This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2023 The Authors. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Edgard Milhaud Foundation.
- Grant note
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Grant/Award Number: 2662022JGQD006; National Social Sciences Foundation of China, Grant/Award Number: 18ZDA072
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991148739602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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