Purpose: In this study, the authors examined demand-side credit in rural China with the aims of understanding attribute preferences and the willingness of farmers to pay for credit. Design/methodology/approach: The authors implemented an in-the-field discrete choice experiment (DCE) using a...

Purpose – 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 guarantee, and analyzes factors influencing their decisions using multinomial and binary Logit regressions....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether or not financial repression exists in the saving and investment activities of farm households in rural areas of China. Design/methodology/approach – This paper empirically investigates repression in rural China using the McKinnon-Shaw...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether or not financial repression exists in the saving and investment activities of farm households in rural areas of China. Design/methodology/approach – This paper empirically investigates repression in rural China using the...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships of technical training and the peer effects of technical training with farmers' pesticide use behaviors. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses survey data from 300 peanut growers in Zoucheng County, Shandong, China, in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between business risks and credit choices of 400 farm households surveyed in Shaanxi province in October 2007 in the Yangling district. More specifically, this paper investigates whether or not rural farm households in...

Purpose – China frequently suffers from weather-related natural disasters and weather risk is recognized as a source of wide-spread systemic risk throughout large swaths of China. During these periods farmers' crops are at risk and for a largely poor population few can afford the turmoil to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the economic significance of informal borrowing between friends and relatives in rural China. Guided by an economic model of household-production interactions, the paper provides results from a survey of over 1,500 households including...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between business risks and credit choices of 400 farm households surveyed in Shaanxi province in October 2007 in the Yangling district. More specifically, this paper investigates whether or not rural farm households in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate weather risks facing Chinese farmers, and to determine whether farmers would have a preference for weather insurance over other types of agricultural insurance. Design/methodology/approach – The data are based on 1,564 farm households...