China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 7 Issue 1

Water shortages, intersectoral water allocation and economic growth: the case of China

Xiangming Fang, Terry L. Roe, Rodney B. W. Smith

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the economic impacts of intra- and inter-regional water reallocation on sectoral transformation and economic growth.

Dynamic food demand in urban China

De Zhou, Xiaohua Yu, Thomas Herzfeld

The purpose of this paper is to investigate dynamic food demand in urban China, with use of a complete dynamic demand system – dynamic linear expenditure system-linear approximate…

Factors affecting farmers’ participation in China’s group guarantee lending program

Rong Kong, Calum Greig Turvey, Hira Channa, Yanling Peng

Based on a survey of 897 farm households, the purpose of this paper is to build a framework using cluster analysis to explain how farmers make decisions on joining group…

Income inequality and rural poverty in China: Focusing on the role of government transfer payments

Haitao Wu, Shijun Ding, Guanghua Wan

The purpose of this paper is to apply a poverty level decomposition approach to decompose the poverty by income sources and investigate the impact of government transfers on…

Public investment in agricultural R&D and extension: An analysis of the effects on Australian broadacre farming productivity

Dandan Zhang, Chunlai Chen, Yu Sheng

– The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of public investment in agricultural R&D and extension on broadacre farming productivity in Australia.

Efficiency of weather derivatives for Chinese agriculture industry

Manuela Ender, Ruyuan Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of temperature-based weather derivatives (WD) in reducing risk exposure for Chinese agriculture industry. Therefore, a put…

The education treatment effect on the non-farm income of Chinese western rural labors

Jiang Luan, Jian-cheng Chen, Zhong-wei He, Qiang Li, Huanguang Qiu

Education plays an important role in improving Chinese rural laborers’ non-farm incomes. However, in Chinese western rural area, the level of return to education is very low due…

Democracy learning, election quality and voter turnout: Evidence from village elections in rural China

Tonglong Zhang, Linxiu Zhang, Linke Hou

After two decades of village elections, the quality of village elections, rather than the utility of village elections, becomes the focus of current research. Based on nationally…