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This study analyzes the potential impact of climate change on China's corn, wheat, and rice, domestic agricultural … literature of climate change effects on China's crop yields. The paper presents the potential impact of climate change on China … under CO2 fertilization, which increases yields, China's grain imports may decrease leading to a decrease in international …
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developing countries such as China. The total number of formal, written contracts between farmers and food processors is … increasing rapidly in China, and the formal contracts that exist are becoming more complex. Contractual design in China is … sizes, the contracted amount in the typical contract in China is very small compared with Western countries, and each …
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a specific test of Boucher, Carter et al. (2008) framework on risk rationing. The data were collected through a survey of 730 farm households in Shaanxi province conducted in November 2010. We compare factor associated with risk rationed, quantity rationed...
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rapidly developing country, China. We find that the government encouraged local innovation by opening regions to more …
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This paper is based on an ongoing joint work with David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang.
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reduce folate deficiencies in China, where about 260 million people are considered to be folate deficient. Consuming folate … and Southern China differ significantly in terms of rice consumption and production, and folate intake, a regional … in China. Objective: The aim is to measure the potential regional health impact of folate biofortified rice (12 μg per 1 …
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dioxide emission intensity among a panel of 30 provinces in China over the period 1990-2010. We use a novel, spatial dynamic …) CO2 emission intensities are converging across provinces in China; (2) the rate of convergence is higher with the dynamic …
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, China has witnessed a decrease in both fertility and female labor force participation since the 1980s. Does fertility play a … different role in female labor force participation in China than in the U.S.? To answer this question, this paper exploits … plausibly exogenous variations in fertility created by the afffirmative One-Child Policy in China to estimate the effect of …
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