Concerned about national food self-sufficiency and rural household incomes, in 2004 China decided to reverse its longstanding policy of taxing farm households and instead began to provide them with subsidies. Since 2004, annual announcements have trumpeted rises in subsidies. Despite the...

This work is devoted to the analysis of the different labor market participation regimes of Chinese farm households over the reform process in the 1980s and 1990s. Using household data over the period 1986-2002 from the province Zhejiang, we apply a multinomial logit model to empirically examine...