China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 5 Issue 3

Chinese domestic textile demand: where they buy does matter

Stephen MacDonald, Suwen Pan, Darren Hudson, Francis Tuan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of distribution channels on demand for apparel, home textiles, and other textiles (including shoes) in urban China.

Determinants of repayment performance of group lending in China: Evidence from rural credit cooperatives' program in Guizhou province

Zhang Qinlan, Yoichi Izumida

The purpose of this paper aims to explore how borrower and group‐level characteristics affect repayment decisions of group borrowers by highlighting the case of rural credit…

Aging of the labor force and technical efficiency in crop production: Evidence from Liaoning province, China

Min Li, Terry Sicular

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the extent of aging in the agricultural labor force and its effect on farm production in a province of China.

An analysis on China's agricultural bilateral trade costs? 1995‐2007

Simei Wen, Jing Zheng, Xiaoli Liu

The trade cost is a significant factor which restricts the trade potential between two nations. This paper aims to make a measurement of agricultural bilateral trade costs of…

The value of life and its regional difference in China

Xuezheng Qin, Lixing Li, Yangyang Liu

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the value of a statistical life (VSL) in China using the hedonic wage model, and to explore the regional difference in VSL within the…

Technical and cost efficiency of rural household apple production

Lijia Wang, Xuexi Huo, Shajahan Kabir

At the center of apple production province in China, how to increase apple per unit yield and to improve apple production efficiency in Shaanxi become big issues. The objectives…

Impact of the economic crisis on income inequality among farm households

Hung‐Hao Chang

The purpose of this paper is to assess the impacts of the 2008 economic crisis on the change in income inequality among farm households using the micro‐level data. The paper aims…

Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market and Environment Decline, 1690s‐1990s

Tao Shi, Jun Li, Guoying Ma