Fan, Linlin; Nogueira, Lia; Baylis, Katherine R. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
In the 1990s, prior to its accession to the WTO, China dramatically reduced market distortions in its agriculture. We use panel data of 10,488 households from 1989 to 2000 and ask whether these reforms improved the welfare of rural Chinese households measured by the share of calories from...