This study examines the impact of non-farm income on farm investment using a nationally representative dataset of 35,200 farm households in rural India. We find a heterogeneous effect of non-farm participation on farm investment. Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) method has been applied to check whether farm investment differs between households with and without access to non-farm incomes at diverse levels of farm investment quantiles. We found that non-farm income has a positive and statistically significant impact on farm investment throughout all quantiles except the lowest quantile (0.25th quantile). Besides, we also found consistently rational results for our control variables. The results highlight the important role of non-farm income in improving farm investment. Therefore, improvement in rural households' access to non-farm employment opportunities could offer an effective mechanism to expedite productivity- augmenting investment to the farm.

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获得非农业收入如何影响印度农村的农业投资？

本研究使用印度农村 35,200 户农户的全国代表性数据集检验非农收入对农业投资的影响。我们发现非农参与对农业投资的不同影响。已应用无条件分位数回归 (UQR) 方法来检查在农业投资分位数的不同水平上获得和没有获得非农业收入的家庭之间的农业投资是否存在差异。我们发现，除最低分位数（第 0.25 分位数）外，非农收入对所有分位数的农业投资都有积极且统计显着的影响。此外，我们还发现控制变量的结果始终是合理的。结果凸显了非农收入在改善农业投资方面的重要作用。因此，提高农村家庭的