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Governance Structures and Resource Policy Reform: Insights from Agricultural Transition

Swinnen, Johan F.M.; Rozelle, Scott - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 33-54

New research on the political economy of policy-induced distortions to incentives for optimal resource use in agriculture and insights from the study of the dramatic reforms in former state-controlled economy has led to enhanced insights on the role of governance structures on policy making in...

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Sequencing and the Success of Gradualism: Empirical Evidence from China's Agricultural Reform

Brauw, Alan de; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - Center for Development Economics, Williams College

This paper provides evidence regarding gains to agricultural market liberalization in China. We empirically identify … the different effects that incentive reforms and gradual market liberalization have on China's agricultural economy during …

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Conducting influential impact evaluations in China: The experience of the Rural Education Action Project

Boswell, Mathew; Rozelle, Scott - International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) - 2011

China. The goal of this paper is to share five practical strategies that REAP has employed to maximize the effectiveness of …

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Spatial market integration and the dynamics of transaction costs in the Chinese soy bean market

Brosig, Stephan; Weitzel, Enno-Burghard; Glauben, Thomas; … - In: EconStor Open Access Articles (2007), pp. 431-437

The development over time of market integration between Chinese provinces is analyzed by estimating threshold vector error correction models for rolling windows during 1998-2003. Transaction costs clearly decrease during this period characterized by liberalization of external trade and domestic...

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Social learning and parameter uncertainty in irreversible investments: Evidence from greenhouse adoption in northern China

Wang, Honglin; Yu, Fan; Reardon, Thomas; Huang, Jikun; … - In: China Economic Review 27 (2013) C, pp. 104-120

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

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Enhancing Productivity on Dairy Farms in China: Taking the Cows to Town

Ma, Hengyun; Rae, Allan N.; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006

Dairy farms in China’s suburban areas have been playing an important role in providing urban markets with fresh milk …

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Persistent Poverty in Rural China: Where, Why, and How to Escape?

Glauben, Thomas; Herzfeld, Thomas; Rozelle, Scott; … - In: World Development 40 (2012) 4, pp. 784-795

Using rural household panel data from three Chinese provinces, this paper identifies determinants of long-term poverty and tests the duration dependence on the probability to leave poverty. Special emphasis is given to the selection of the poverty line and inter-regional differences across...

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The impact of conditional cash transfers on the matriculation of junior high school students into rural China's high schools

Li, Fan; Song, Yingquan; Yi, Hongmei; Wei, Jianguo; … - 2015

randomized controlled trial involving 1,418 disadvantaged (economically poor) students in rural China, we find that the promise …

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Livestock in China: Commodity specific total factor productivity decomposition using new panel data

Rae, Allan N.; Ma, Hengyun; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - 2005

especially in the context of developing countries such as China where livestock is becoming more important in the domestic … agricultural economy. We estimate total factor productivity (TFP) for four major livestock products in China employing the … technical innovation in China's livestock sector, technical efficiency improvement has been relatively slow. …

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Contribution of Wheat Diversity to Total Factor Productivity in China

Jin, Songqing; Meng, Erika C.H.; Hu, Ruifa; Rozelle, Scott - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 33 (2008) 3

The impact of wheat diversity on the productivity of wheat in China is examined using total factor productivity (TFP …) and an instrumental variable approach. TFP in seven key wheat-producing provinces in China shows significant, though …

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