China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 14 Issue 2

A meta-analysis of the impact of agricultural extension services

Kolawole Ogundari

This study aims to address two research questions. First, do the agricultural extension services have an impact on the potential outcomes considered in the primary studies, and to…

The effect of grassland transfer on herders' livestock production and grazing intensity in Inner Mongolia and Gansu, China

Xiaolong Feng, Jianjun Tang, Huanguang Qiu

The purpose of this study is to understand the impact mechanism of grassland transfer on herders' production behaviour in pastoral areas. The impact of grassland transfer on…

Economic analysis of the environmental sustainability of agriculture: recent studies using quasi-experimental methods

Wei Zhang

The purpose of this review article is to demonstrate how the quasi-experimental approach has been used to study environmental and natural resource issues related to agricultural…

Homestead reduction, economic agglomeration and rural economic development: evidence from Shanghai, China

Hongmei Liu, Guoxiang Li, Keqiang Wang

The contradiction of construction land in economically developed regions is becoming more prominent, and the scale of construction land in some large cities is close to the…

Unobservable land value in rural China and its microeconomic implication on land lease behavior

Xu He, Takeshi Sakurai

Total farmland value exceeds its value in agriculture but is not directly perceptible to villagers in China. Thus, the exceeded part is often neglected when discussing farmer’s…

The effect of export tax rebates on product quality: evidence from China's agricultural product processing industry

Yue Liang, Jingqi Dang, Shuai Chen

This study aims to establish the linkage among export tax rebate (ETR), firm innovation and product quality of Chinese agricultural product processing industry (APPI), so that…

How large is the farm income loss due to climate change? Evidence from India

Rajesh Kalli, Pradyot Ranjan Jena

Climate change is the most concerned issue in the global economy; increase in climate variability and uncertain climate events have caused distress in agriculture sector. The…

The influence of clan social capital on collective biogas investment

Anbang Wang, Ke He, Junbiao Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of clan social capital on the willingness to pay (WTP) and WTP value for collective biogas investment.

Environmental regulation and location dynamics of the livestock industry: evidence from 279 Chinese prefecture-level cities

Dan Pan, Yingheng Zhou, Liguo Zhang

This paper examines the impact of livestock environment regulations (LERs) on the location dynamics of the livestock farming industry. Specifically, it tests whether a “pollution…

Mutual proximity and heterogeneity in peer effects of farmers' technology adoption: evidence from China's soil testing and formulated fertilization program

Zhigang Xu, Kerong Zhang, Li Zhou, Ruiyao Ying

While the peer effects of technology adoption are well established, few studies have considered the variation in peer effects resulting from the mutual proximity between leaders…

Evaluating anti-poverty policy efficiencies in China: meta-frontier analysis using the two-stage data envelopment analysis model

Guotao Yang, Yue Wang, Huibin Chang, Qinghua Chen

This study examines the relative efficiencies of anti-poverty policies implemented in 28 Chinese provinces.

Liquidity of China’s agricultural futures market: measurement and cross-market dependence

Yuanyuan Xu, Jian Li, Linjie Wang, Chongguang Li

This paper aims to present the first empirical liquidity measurement of China’s agricultural futures markets and study time-varying liquidity dependence across markets.

Book review

Chung Thanh Phan