China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 4 Issue 1

The effect of off‐farm employment on the decisions of households to rent out and rent in cultivated land in China

Jikun Huang, Liangliang Gao, Scott Rozelle

Developing nations need good cultivated land rental markets to foster rational resource use and to enhance productivity and equity. Can cultivated land rental markets emerge in…

Disaggregating household expenditures on food away from home in Beijing by type of food facility and type of meal

Junfei Bai, Caiping Zhang, Fangbin Qiao, Tom Wahl

The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors influencing household food consumption away from home in Beijing by type of food facility and type of meal.

The rise of middle class in rural China

Zhang Yuan, Guanghua Wan, Niny Khor

Using official and household survey data, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the size of middle class in rural China, its trend and geographical distribution. Determinants or…

Nonlinear investigations of China's agricultural transformation based on the structural break regime switching model

Jie Lu, Angang Hu, Yilong Yan

Investigating the characteristics of the transformation of China's agricultural growth and the institutional reforms during the whole transition period in the 1980s will help to…

Adverse selection in China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme

Lijian Qin, Suwen Pan, Chenggang Wang, Zhongyi Jiang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the adverse selection in participation in the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS), as well as in outpatient and inpatient service…

China's farmer perception of pesticide residues and the impact factors: The case of Jiangsu Province

Linhai Wu, Bo Hou

Pesticide residue is a stubborn problem affecting the quality and safety of agricultural products in China, and has not yet been fundamentally resolved. The purpose of this paper…

Technology, factor endowments, and China's agricultural foreign trade: a neoclassical approach

Xilin Li

The purpose of this paper is to explain the determination of China's agricultural foreign trade pattern since the World Trade Organization (WTO) accession.

Farmers' adoption of new plant varieties under variety property right protection: Evidence from rural China

Shi Zheng, Pei Xu, Zhigang Wang

The purpose of this paper is to identify factors that affect farm acceptance of the new seeds. This paper develops a Bivariate Probit model with adjusted sample selection bias to…

2011 Awards for excellence

Xiaofei Li