Income aspirations, migration, and investments on and off the farm: Evidence from rural Tajikistan

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Development
cg.coverage.countryTajikistan
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2TJ
cg.coverage.regionCentral Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.creator.identifierJeffrey Bloem: 0000-0002-4995-3043
cg.creator.identifierIsabel Lambrecht: 0000-0003-1709-6611
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137012
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Systems Transformation - Food and Nutrition Policy
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategies and Governance Unit
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Systems Transformation - Transformation Strategies
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Tajikistan Evaluation and Analysis Activity
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number2209
cg.placeWashington, DC
cg.reviewStatusInternal Review
dc.contributor.authorBloem, Jeffrey R.
dc.contributor.authorLambrecht, Isabel B.
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-14T12:09:20Zen
dc.date.available2024-03-14T12:09:20Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/140330
dc.titleIncome aspirations, migration, and investments on and off the farm: Evidence from rural Tajikistanen
dcterms.abstractIn places with few casual or salaried employment opportunities, investments in farm or non-farm assets may offer the main pathway to increased incomes locally, whereas others may seek alternative investment options elsewhere—as migrants. What factors, then, explain these investment choices? One theory suggests that aspirations that are ahead, but not too far ahead, of current levels provide the best incentive for promoting investment. If this theory holds, then estimates of the relationship between the aspirations gap and investment choices should take the form of a non-monotonic inverted U-shape. We test for such a relationship between the income aspirations gap and investments in migration, farm assets, and non-farm assets using data from a household survey in rural Tajikistan. We find evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between the income aspirations gap and measures of migration, with the strongest relationship found with international migration. Strikingly, we do not observe any association between the income aspirations gap and measures of investment in farm or non-farm assets. Exploring heterogeneity, we find that these results can vary by household poverty status and by the respondent’s gender. Investigating a possible mechanism, we find that the relationship between the income aspirations gap and migration seems to be driven by remittances, which outweigh migration costs and increase household income.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBloem, Jeffrey R.; and Lambrecht, Isabel. 2023. Income aspirations, migration, and investments on and off the farm: Evidence from rural Tajikistan. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2209. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137012.en
dcterms.extent45 p.
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2023-12-07
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12785en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1111/ecot.12302en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134858en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/151061en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251343885
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/137012
dcterms.subjectincomeen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectinvestmenten
dcterms.subjectremittancesen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectlivelihoodsen
dcterms.subjectfarmsen
dcterms.subjectmigrationen
dcterms.subjectpovertyen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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