China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 12 Issue 2

Editorial

Baozhong Su

Late-mover advantages and disadvantages in China's futures market

Qing Chang

This article aims to provide an in-depth analysis of the late-mover advantages and disadvantages of China's futures market.

What factors affect Chinese consumers’ online grocery shopping? Product attributes, e-vendor characteristics and consumer perceptions

Qiujie Zheng, Junhong Chen, Robin Zhang, H. Holly Wang

In this paper, we provide a simple conceptual framework with empirical analysis to investigate the effect of product attributes and e-vendor characteristics that are potentially…

What can we learn from experience? An impact analysis of experience on households' preferences for microfinance

Zhao Ding, Awudu Abdulai, Yuansheng Jiang

This article examines the impact of experience on rural households' preferences for microfinance attributes, using household data from Sichuan province in China.

Why aren't rural children completing compulsory education? A survey-based study in China, 2003 to 2011

Xiaoyun Liu, Scott Rozelle

Although China has instituted compulsory education through Grade 9, it is still unclear whether students are, in fact, staying in school. In this paper, the authors use a…

Financial inclusion, land title and credit: evidence from China

Meishan Jiang, Krishna P. Paudel, Donghui Peng, Yunsheng Mi

The purpose of this paper is to study land title’s credit effect from a financial inclusion perspective in China. The focus is both small land holding and poor farmers. Formal and…

Market power, ownership and technical efficiency: An empirical test for China’s food manufacturers

Jiawu Dai, Xun Li

The purpose of this paper is to estimate oligopsony power in the upstream factor market and oligopoly power in the downstream product market. On this basis, the paper intends to…

Can online social interaction improve the digital finance participation of rural households?

Jing He, Qinghai Li

Digital finance is a promising way to realize inclusive finance. However, the determinants of digital finance participation are largely unknown. This study aims to analyze the…

Internet use and rural residents' income growth

Xiaoli Zhou, Yiwen Cui, Shaopeng Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct effects of Internet use on rural residents' income growth and the indirect effects of increasing their income by promoting rural…

Land tenure and agricultural investments in China: a meta-regression analysis

Jing Li

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that lead to the controversy within the existing empirical literature on the relationship between land tenure and agricultural…

Rural finance, scale management and rural industrial integration

Xiujuan Tian, Manhua Wu, Lin Ma, Ning Wang

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the effect of rural finance on industrial integration of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries.

Determinants and overuse of pesticides in grain production: A comparison of rice, maize and wheat in China

Shengyang Sun, Chao Zhang, Ruifa Hu

The negative externalities of pesticide overuse increasingly concern the public. However, little empirical evidence has been provided for pesticide overuse and the relationship…