Assess how Agricultural Income Shock Leads to Rural China Migration Decisions

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Alison Yiyin Li
Alison Yiyin Li

Alison Li is a rising junior (’23) with a major in Economics and minors in IDEAS and Data Analysis. She is from Beijing, China, and graduated from The High School Affiliated to Renmin University. In her free time, she likes to paint, up-cycle used clothing, and cook spicy dishes that no one at Wes can handle. After graduation, Alison hopes to pursue a career in consulting or digital marketing.

Abstract:

This research aims to develop a better understanding of rural-rural migration decision-making in 1990s China, where rural-social relationships peaked due to the village lineage collective’s conventions on land entitlements. Such land territorialization led villagers that did not have close kinship networks to allocate to poor quality land, therefore low income. This project serves to focus on the impact weather instability brings into migration choices, building on Professor Zhao’s research in kinship networks and its economic influence.

After obtaining weathering and production data covering 297 rural villages that include farming intensive households, the primary work of this project is to find the weather stations that are closest to each village and systematically code the weather data, total production, and revenue to match the villages. Data from the years 1986 to 1999 was successfully obtained by gathering data from different sources, which can be used to analyze a series of migration costs by distance, suitability, ease of movement, consumption, etc.  

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