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This study aims to evaluate how rural villages in China coped with off-farm employment shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Coping with off-farm employment shocks at the grassroots level in rural areas: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in China

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Randomized trial examines grassroots coping measures to reduce employment shocks in rural areas, suggesting effective responses for future crises.

This study aims to evaluate how rural villages in China coped with off-farm employment shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Panel dataset of 800 households in 100 villages across 25 counties over five provinces.
Regression analyses using Propensity Score Matching and Instrumental Variable approaches to assess coping measures.
Analysis of employment support measures adopted by villages, including job information and transportation subsidies.
81% of villages adopted at least one coping measure to support off-farm employment.
Providing job information with job offers reduced the probability of exiting off-farm employment and working fewer hours.
Providing job information alone also decreased the risk of working fewer hours with limited differences observed by gender or education.

Bai et al. (2026) studied this question.

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Randomized trial examines grassroots coping measures to reduce employment shocks in rural areas, suggesting effective responses for future crises.