Agricultural Mechanization and BMI for Rural Workers: A Field Experiment in China

dc.contributor.author Guo, Zizhen
dc.contributor.author Jiang, Yu
dc.contributor.author Huffman, Sonya
dc.contributor.department Department of Economics (LAS)
dc.date 2019-07-18T06:42:38.000
dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-30T02:14:17Z
dc.date.available 2020-06-30T02:14:17Z
dc.date.embargo 2018-06-20
dc.date.issued 2018-06-20
dc.description.abstract <p>This paper examines whether and how agricultural mechanization affects the BMI of farmers in rural China using a unique data set. We conducted a field experiment with face-to-face interviews in 135 counties of 12 provinces in China in 2013. It includes 4,229 individuals from 1,024 rural households, of which 1,033 of the 2,165 workers are farmers. The BMI of farmers who utilize agricultural mechanization is about 10 percent larger than those who don’t at a 1 percent significance level. Our results suggest that the adoption of agricultural mechanization has a positive and statistically significant effect on farmers’ BMI in China: it increases the BMI of farmers by 7.8 percent. Agricultural mechanization significantly reduces hours of farm work. The reduced hours of farm work due to the adoption of agricultural mechanization explain 30 percent of the BMI increase of rural farmers. Understanding BMI in rural China is important in order to define what public policies are most likely to be effective in preventing and reducing obesity in rural China.</p>
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.identifier archive/lib.dr.iastate.edu/econ_workingpapers/48/
dc.identifier.articleid 1047
dc.identifier.contextkey 12345305
dc.identifier.s3bucket isulib-bepress-aws-west
dc.identifier.submissionpath econ_workingpapers/48
dc.identifier.uri https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.500.12876/22669
dc.relation.ispartofseries 18010
dc.source.bitstream archive/lib.dr.iastate.edu/econ_workingpapers/48/2018_HuffmanS_Agricultural_Mechanization.pdf|||Sat Jan 15 00:27:25 UTC 2022
dc.subject.disciplines Agricultural and Resource Economics
dc.subject.disciplines Behavioral Economics
dc.subject.disciplines Growth and Development
dc.subject.disciplines International Economics
dc.subject.keywords agricultural mechanization
dc.subject.keywords BMI
dc.subject.keywords rural China
dc.title Agricultural Mechanization and BMI for Rural Workers: A Field Experiment in China
dc.type working paper
dc.type.genre working paper
dspace.entity.type Publication
relation.isOrgUnitOfPublication 4c5aa914-a84a-4951-ab5f-3f60f4b65b3d
File
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
2018_HuffmanS_Agricultural_Mechanization.pdf
Size:
720.88 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Collections