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The effect of off-farm employment on the decisions of households to rent out and rent in cultivated land in China
Huang, Jikun; Gao, Liangliang; Rozelle, Scott - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 1, pp. 5-17
Purpose – Developing nations need good cultivated land rental markets to foster rational resource use and to enhance … productivity and equity. Can cultivated land rental markets emerge in the face of rapidly developing off-farm labor markets? The … purpose of this paper is to measure the correlation between the emergence of off-farm employment and cultivated land rental in …
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Are China's farms growing?
Ji, Xianqing; Rozelle, Scott; Zhang, Linxiu; Zhang, Tonglong - In: China & world economy 24 (2016) 1, pp. 41-62
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437640
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Ability tracking and social capital in China's rural secondary school system
Li, Fan; Loyalka, Prashant; Yi, Hongmei; Shi, Yaojiang; … - 2016
The goal of this paper is describe and analyze the relationship between ability tracking and student social capital, in the context of poor students in developing countries. Drawing on the results from a longitudinal study among 1,436 poor students across 132 schools in rural China, we find a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487844
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Does it Pay to Be a Cadre? : Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China
Zhang, Jian - 2012
Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting the scope for excessive rent-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395367
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Maternal health services in China's western rural areas : uptake and correlates
Chengfang, Liu; Zhang, Linxiu; Shi, Yaojiang; Zhou, Huan; … - In: China agricultural economic review : publ. in … 8 (2016) 2, pp. 250-276
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The new rural social pension program in rural China : participation and its correlates
Zhao, Qiran; Brosig, Stephan; Renfu, Luo; Zhang, Linxiu; … - In: China agricultural economic review : publ. in … 8 (2016) 4, pp. 647-661
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Trends and determinants of rural residential solid waste collection services in China
Wang, Aiqin; Shi, Yaojiang; Gao, Qiufeng; Chengfang, Liu; … - In: China agricultural economic review : publ. in … 8 (2016) 4, pp. 698-710
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Gender and off-farm employment : evidence from rural China
Wang, Xiaobing; Linghui Han; Huang, Jikun; Zhang, Linxiu; … - In: China & world economy 24 (2016) 3, pp. 18-36
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535929
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Effects of parental migration on mental health of left-behind children : evidence from Northwestern China
Shi, Yaojiang; Bai, Yu; Shen, Yanni; Kenny, Kaleigh; … - In: China & world economy 24 (2016) 3, pp. 105-122
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535970
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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
The goal of this study is to examine whether promising a Conditional Cash Transfer (conditional on matriculation) at the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matriculate into high school. Based on a randomized controlled trial involving 1,418 disadvantaged...
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