Exporting out of agriculture: The impact of WTO accession on structural transformation in China
This paper analyzes the effect of China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 on structural transformation at the local level, exploiting cross-sectional variation in tariff uncertainty faced by county economies pre-2001. Using a new panel of 1,800 Chinese counties from 1996 to 2013, w...
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| author | Erten, Bilge Leight, Jessica |
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| description | This paper analyzes the effect of China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 on structural transformation at the local level, exploiting cross-sectional variation in tariff uncertainty faced by county economies pre-2001. Using a new panel of 1,800 Chinese counties from 1996 to 2013, we find that counties more exposed to the reduction in tariff uncertainty postaccession are characterized by increased exports and foreign direct investment, shrinking agricultural sectors, expanding secondary sectors, and higher total and per capita GDP. In addition, when labor substitutes from nonagricultural to agricultural production in counties exposed to positive trade shocks, agricultural output declines. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1428872025-12-08T10:29:22Z Exporting out of agriculture: The impact of WTO accession on structural transformation in China Erten, Bilge Leight, Jessica agricultural production trade policies wto trade tariffs This paper analyzes the effect of China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 on structural transformation at the local level, exploiting cross-sectional variation in tariff uncertainty faced by county economies pre-2001. Using a new panel of 1,800 Chinese counties from 1996 to 2013, we find that counties more exposed to the reduction in tariff uncertainty postaccession are characterized by increased exports and foreign direct investment, shrinking agricultural sectors, expanding secondary sectors, and higher total and per capita GDP. In addition, when labor substitutes from nonagricultural to agricultural production in counties exposed to positive trade shocks, agricultural output declines. 2021-06-01 2024-05-22T12:11:15Z 2024-05-22T12:11:15Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142887 en Limited Access MIT Press Erten, Bilge; and Leight, Jessica. 2021. Exporting out of agriculture: The impact of WTO accession on structural transformation in China. Review of Economics and Statistics 103(2): 364–380. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00852 |
| spellingShingle | agricultural production trade policies wto trade tariffs Erten, Bilge Leight, Jessica Exporting out of agriculture: The impact of WTO accession on structural transformation in China |
| title | Exporting out of agriculture: The impact of WTO accession on structural transformation in China |
| title_full | Exporting out of agriculture: The impact of WTO accession on structural transformation in China |
| title_fullStr | Exporting out of agriculture: The impact of WTO accession on structural transformation in China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exporting out of agriculture: The impact of WTO accession on structural transformation in China |
| title_short | Exporting out of agriculture: The impact of WTO accession on structural transformation in China |
| title_sort | exporting out of agriculture the impact of wto accession on structural transformation in china |
| topic | agricultural production trade policies wto trade tariffs |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142887 |
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