China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 8 Issue 2

How to promote agricultural insurance in China?

Guozhu Tuo

This paper aims to investigate how to promote the agricultural insurance amid the "new normal" of economic development.

Technology, enrollment gender gap and the impact of social norms in rural China

Hejun Gu, Ugur Aytun Ozturk

Investigating the relationship between gender gap in school enrollment and the spread of information and communication technology (ICT) in rural China.

An empirical analysis of the effect of crop insurance on farmers’ income: results from Inner Mongolia in China

Yuan feng Zhao, Zhihui Chai, Michael S Delgado, Paul V Preckel

The purpose of this paper is to assess the effect of crop insurance on farmer income in Inner Mongolia, China

Trade margins, quality upgrading, and China’s agri-food export growth

Dongwen Tian, Na Hu, Xin Wang, Li Huang

The purpose of this paper is to find out the source and pattern of China’s agri-food export growth mainly along the intensive margin and the factors affecting it, especially the…

Maternal health services in China’s western rural areas: uptake and correlates

Chengfang Liu, Linxiu Zhang, Yaojiang Shi, Huan ZHOU, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle

Many public health systems have struggled with the dual questions of (1) why the uptake rate of maternal health services is low among some subpopulations; and (2) how to raise it…

Driving force or obstruction? the impacts of financial supervision and structural changes on the productivity of the credit departments of farmers’ associations

Yung‐Hsiang Lu

In Taiwan, owing to the defects of the management system, the percentage of non-performing loans of the Credit Departments of Farmers’ Associations (CDFAs) has increased markedly…

Food consumption of outgoing rural migrant workers in urban area of China: a QUAIDS approach

Xinru Han, Yongfu Chen

In the process of economic development and urbanization, it is important to capture the outgoing rural migrant workers’ food consumption characteristics for ensuring China’s…

An empirical analysis of consumer willingness to pay for domestically grown product attributes: the case of Taiwan

Jong-Wen Wann, Yu-Chen Yang, Wen-Shing Huang

This study investigates consumers' willingness to pay for product attributes of domestically grown fruit and vegetable products.

Do Chinese dairy firms have market power? an estimation of market power with price heterogeneity

Qing Guo, H. Holly Wang, Yongjun Chen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate market power in dairy industry in China. Specifically, we analyze market power for different firm size, locations of region and city…

Drivers of household entry and intensity in land rental market in rural China: evidence from North Henan Province

Xiaohuan Yan, XUEXI HUO

Economic reforms in rural China have led to the emergence of land and labor markets. The development of rural land rental markets can improve agricultural productivity and equity…