This paper examines the effect of the financial crisis on off-farm employment of China's rural labor force. Using a … national representative data set collected from across China, the paper finds that there was a substantial impact. By April …

This paper uses farm panel data from China to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine investments, and the … demand for machine services. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion of machine rentals and machine … complementarity between rented-in land and machine services (demanded), which implies that scale economies are arising in Chinese …