@article{Kimsanova:334559,
      recid = {334559},
      author = {Kimsanova, Barchynai and Sanaev, Golib and Herzfeld,  Thomas},
      title = {Trade-offs between international migration and  agricultural commercialization: evidence frrom Kyrgyzstan},
      address = {2023-03},
      pages = {17},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {This paper analyzes the relationship between international  migration, labor, remittances, and agricultural  commercialization in Kyrgyzstan using nationally  representative household panel surveys covering eight years  from 2013 to 2020. Unlike other studies, we focus on  evaluating the impact of international migration on total  farm commercialization, including crop, livestock, and live  animals. We use quantile regression via moments and a  three-stage least squares method to overcome the potential  endogeneity of migration, labor, and remittances. Overall  results show that sending household members abroad has a  significant labor-loss effect on households with a  consequent impact on farm commercialization. Remittances  only partially compensate for losses for households with  the lowest level of commercialization. Furthermore, the  quantile regressions show little heterogeneity between the  selected quantiles, except for the number of migrants,  which is detrimental to the lowest level of  commercialization},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/334559},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.334559},
}