China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 4 Issue 2

Parental training, anemia and the impact on the nutrition of female students in China's poor rural elementary schools

Yaojiang Shi, Fang Chang, Xiaoqing Su, Renfu Luo, Linxiu Zhang, Scott Rozelle

The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a randomized controlled trial designed to measure the impact of a parental training program on the nutritional status of…

Productivity, efficiency and structural problems in Chinese dairy farms

Xiaohua Yu

The purpose of this paper is to identify the structural problem in the Chinese dairy sector. There exists a large number of low‐efficiency, small‐scale farms, and productivity…

The effects of medical insurance on durables consumption in rural China

Meiling Ying, Zaichao Du

The New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS), implemented in China since 2003, has greatly increased the access of the poor to health services and alleviated the hardship…

Impacts of direct government payments on US agriculture: evidence from 1960‐2010 data

Yang Zou, Qingbin Wang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of direct government payments on agricultural production and exports in the USA.

Willingness to pay for traceable pork: evidence from Beijing, China

Shi Zheng, Pei Xu, Zhigang Wang, Shunfeng Song

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the evolution of the food traceability system in China, examine factors that affect consumers' perception of a food traceability system…

Farmers' financial choices and informal credit markets in China

Yan Yuan, Ping Gao

Informal credit markets are very active in many developing countries, including China. Informal financial associations have become a major channel of borrowing. Using data from…

Hog insurance adoption and suppliers' discrimination: A bivariate probit model with partial observability

Ying Cao, Yuehua Zhang

This paper explored factors that impact insurance choices of demand (farmers) and supply (insurance companies) side, respectively.

Selected papers from the 2011 Chinese Economists Society Conference

Yanling Wang