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Left behind to farm ? women's labor re-allocation in rural China (English)

The transformation of work during China’s rapid economic development is associated with a substantial but little noticed re-allocation of traditional farm labor among women, with some doing much less and some much more. This paper studies how the work, time allocation, and health of non-migrant women are affected by the out-migration of others in their household. The analysis finds that the women left behind are doing more farm work than would have...
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Mu,Ren; Van De Walle,Dominique.

Left behind to farm ? women's labor re-allocation in rural China (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5107 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/311381468216941447

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