This paper examines the relationship between gender inequality and nutrition using direct indicators of empowerment … good, child health. Indices that capture distinct dimensions of women’s empowerment are used as explanatory variables along … greater degree of women’s empowerment is associated with better long term nutritional status of children. Attitudes towards …

This paper addresses the challenges facing China in accelerating the pace of rural-urban migration as part of its on … lessons for China are offered from the different urbanisation experiences of Latin America (especially Colombia) and Singapore. …

employs a unique natural experiment where some provincial governments in China liberalized migration policies for highly … provincial level employment data from the China Labor Statistical Yearbook. This paper found strong evidence that the HEHS labor … pool affected the location decision of food processing firms in China. The result supports recent literature that the food …

believed to have significant effect on the rise of obesity in China. This paper analyses Body Mass Index (BMI) and overweight … issue of adults 18 years and above in urban China with respect to food eating locations and other socio-economic and …

imbalance influences the venturing at the household level in China. We find that households with a son in more sex …

of climate change on corn and soybean yields in China. Our results suggest the existence of nonlinear and asymmetric … study period has led to an economic loss of $220 million in 2009 alone in China’s corn and soybean sectors. Corn yields in … China are predicted to decrease by 2-5% under the slowest warming scenario and by 5-15% under the fastest warming scenario …

-related carbon dioxide emission intensity among a panel of 30 provinces in China covering the period 1991-2010. We use novel spatial …

health status on income in China and examine whether their conclusions still hold under new specifications and in a broader …

farmland rental market in rural China. Results show that loans from banks promote the development of farmland rental market …