China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 6 Issue 3

Impacts of climate change on net crop revenue in North and South China

Jinxia Wang, Jikun Huang, Lijuan Zhang, Yumin Li

The purpose of this paper is to explore the impacts of climate change on crop net revenue by region. Particularly, the authors focus on the impact differences between north and…

Quality of institutions and the BRIC countries agro-food exports

Štefan Bojnec, Imre Fertő, József Fogarasi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of institutional quality (IQ) in exporting and importing countries on agro-food exports from the world's leading emerging…

Food prices and inflation dynamics in China

Chengsi Zhang, Chunming Meng, Lisa Getz

China has witnessed low and stable consumer price inflation in conjunction with high and volatile food price inflation over the past decade. The purpose of this paper is to…

Cognitive biases and design effects in experimental auctions: An application to GM rice with health benefits

Hans De Steur, Filiep Vanhonacker, Shuyi Feng, Xiaoping Shi, Wim Verbeke, Xavier Gellynck

Experimental auctions are widely used as a non-hypothetical value elicitation method to examine consumer preferences for novel, controversial foods. However, despite its…

Fertilizer industry subsidies in China: who are the beneficiaries?

Sheng Li, Yaoqi Zhang, Denis Nadolnyak, John David Wesley, Yifei Zhang

Since 2004, subsidies increased by 670 percent in the Chinese fertilizer industry to reduce the farmer's burden. The purpose of this paper is to assess whether subsidies benefit…

Determinants of pork demand by income class in urban western China

Jingjing Wang, Yongfu Chen, Zhihao Zheng, Wei Si

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of pork consumption in urban western China and the different consumption patterns across income strata with respect to…

Is Chinese or American maize price effective for trading and policy-making reference?

Yunxian Yan, Lu Tian, Yuejie Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to discover an effective maize price for trading and policy-making reference by assessing the price transmission of the US spot and futures maize…

Technical efficiency and metatechnology ratios under varying resource endowment in different production systems : A stochastic metafrontier model in Bangladesh dairy farms

Mohammad Mohi Uddin, Bernhard Brümmer, Kurt Johanes Peters

The purpose of this paper is to compare technical efficiency and metatechnology ratios (MTR) in three production systems confronted with different technological and resource…

Hukou's impact on labor occupation segmentation

Jin Song, Shi Li

The purpose of this paper is to take occupation opportunity as an indicator to examine the impact of hukou on labor market segmentation in China. It estimates the scale of the…

Dormitory management and boarding students in China's rural primary schools

Ai Yue, Yaojiang Shi, Fang Chang, Chu Yang, Huan Wang, Hongmei YI, Renfu Luo, Chengfang Liu, Linxiu Zhang, James Yanjey Chu, Scott Rozelle

– The purpose of this paper is to explore whether an in-service life teacher training program can improve boarding students’ health, behavior, and academic performance.

Series of Agricultural Economic History

Yong Lu and Yang Yidan