We consider risk sharing in rural China during its rapid economic transformation from the late 1980s through the late …-level aggregate income shocks, and show that this decline is related to observable economic changes: the shift from agriculture to …

middle-income countries--lack strong primary care. We analyze China's efforts to promote primary care management for insured …

Using 2006 China Agricultural Census (CAC), we examine whether the introduction of the New Cooperative Medical System …

plausibly exogenous changes in family size caused by relaxations in China's One Child Policy to estimate the causal effect of …

Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the … WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite … taxation of agriculture has declined sharply, with the abolition of production quotas and procurement pricing, and reductions …

rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … urban-rural income gap on which much of current poverty debate in China focuses. Since an uncertain income stream is worth … widen the urban-rural income gap in China but also increases other distributional summary statistics. Depending upon values …

from rural China. Consistent with the model, we find that elections improve (weaken) the implementation of popular …