China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 8 Issue 4

Best management practices adoption to mitigate non-point source pollution: A conditional frailty model

Krishna P. Paudel, Nirmala Devkota, Ying Tan

The purpose of this paper is to address the issues of correlated events and individual heterogeneity in multiple best management practices (BMPs) adoption.

Financial performance of small farm business households: the role of internet

Aditya R. Khanal, Ashok K. Mishra

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of internet usage on financial performance of small farm business households in the USA. In particular, the authors want to…

Positional concern, gender, and household expenditures: a case study in Yunnan province

Xiaojun Yang, Ping Qin, Jintao Xu

The purpose of this paper is to attempt to investigate farmer’s positional concerns in rural China, and how the positional concerns correlate with household expenditures on…

Rural household income mobility in the people’s commune period: The case of Dongbeili production team in Shanxi province

Yingwei Huang, Jun Li, Zheng Gu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the long-term differences in household income and their causes in the people’s commune through a panel of micro-data.

Impact of the methods of groundwater access on irrigation and crop yield in the North China Plain: Does climate matter?

Lijuan Zhang, Jinxia Wang, Guangsheng Zhang, Qiuqiong Huang

The purpose of this paper is: to track the methods by which farmers access groundwater for irrigation in the North China Plain (NCP); to explore whether climate factors influence…

Editorial

Linxiu Zhang, Yaojiang Shi, Scott Rozelle

Inequities in the allocation of medical resources in China’s Township Health Centers

Yue Ma, Linxiu Zhang, Matthew Boswell

The purpose of this paper is to produce a high-quality measure of the nature of healthcare resources available in China’s Township Health Centers (THCs), paying particular…

The new rural social pension program in rural China: participation and its correlates

Qiran Zhao, Stephan Brosig, Renfu Luo, Linxiu Zhang, Ai Yue, Scott Rozelle

The need for a universal rural pension system has been heightened by demographic changes in rural China, including the rapid aging of the nation’s rural population and a dramatic…

Who are rural China’s village clinicians?

Hao Xue, Yaojiang Shi, Alexis Medina

The purpose of this paper is to measure the turnover (or stability in employment) of village clinicians in rural China over the past decade. The authors also want to provide…

Adult child migration and elderly parental health in rural China

Fang Chang, Yaojiang Shi, Hongmei Yi, Natalie Johnson

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effect of adult children migration on the health status of elderly parents. Increased labor migration in developing countries that…

Trends and determinants of rural residential solid waste collection services in China

Aiqin Wang, Yaojiang Shi, Qiufeng Gao, Chengfang Liu, Linxiu Zhang, Natalie Johnson, Scott Rozelle

The purpose of this paper is to describe the trends in residential solid waste collection (RSWC) services in rural China over the past decade and analyze the determinants of these…

Labor Employment and Social Security in China’s First Village of Reforming and Anhui Province

Lijian Qin, Chenggang Wang