We evaluate the role that cities play on individual productivity in China. First, we show that location explains a … external markets does not. Therefore, large agglomeration economies prevail in China and they are more localised than in … China. …

This paper analyses the impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) on rural labor migration in China. We use …

This paper explores the rural labor market impact of migration in China using crosssectional data on rural households … rural China is responsive to migration, at both the individual and the family levels, but the impacts differ : individual …

Internal labour migration has become an important part of the process of China’s industrialization and urbanisation in … motives of and the constraints to labour mobility in China. Drawing on various empirical investigations at the household level …

China to test the predictions in both a linear probability model and a duration analysis. Our empirical findings support the …

This paper examines how farmers have adapted to the current range of climates across China. A cross sectional method is … used to analyze irrigation choice and crop choice across 8,405 farmers in 28 provinces in China. We find that both …

Concerned about national grain self-sufficiency and rural household incomes, in 2004 China announced that it was … of policy and the likely implication of this subsidy policy to China’s grain economy, there has been no household …-level survey-based research that has sought to understand the effect of China’s subsidy programme on household behaviour. Using …

Great changes have taken place in China’s agricultural and food markets in the past several decades. However, the … impact of the transformation brought by modern supply chains on the welfare of farmers in China is unclear. This paper … attempts to understand whether or not the recent changes in China’s food economy have contributed to an improvement in the …

China has a biosafety regulatory framework in place for both domestic GM crop commercialization and imports. China … of maize in the near future. Both China’s soybean and maize imports are dominated by GM varieties, with most soybean … imported from the US, Brazil and Argentina and maize imported mainly from the US. China’s import approval process takes on …