The overall goal of this paper is to assess how input trade liberalization induced by China’s accession to the World … Trade Organization (WTO), will affect producers in China. To do so, we identify changes in domestic input marketing and … degree to which producers have benefited from these price falls by examining the extent to which China’s input markets can be …

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

Purpose: The need for a universal rural pension system has been heightened by demographic changes in rural China …, China’s Government introduced the New Rural Social Pension Program (NRSPP) in 2009, a voluntary and highly subsidized … authors examine whether the NRSPP affects the labor supply of the elderly population in China. Design …

The Rural Minimum Living Standard is an important component of social security in rural areas of China, as it provides …