distributional effects. In Southwest China we are facing a rapid deforestation for the development of rubber cultivation and at the …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal … employment and obesity in children aged 3 - 17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for …

China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use … % annually) in 2000 for young people in urban areas of six provinces of China. The effect of college on those who go is 13 %. Our … return to education has increased substantially in China, compared to the returns measured in the 1980 s and the early 1990's. …

The transformation of China into a knowledge based economy is currently one of the most intensively debated research … knowledge spillovers on manufacturing total factor productivity (TFP) in China - at the level of Chinese regions - through the … question whether TFP in China is increasingly based on knowledge production and diffusion. Relying on the regional KCM as …

China's striving to ensure food security for its large population, and that problem I well known. In about one fifth of … global population is living in China, in the same time should relay only 1/15 from rural land and 8% of fresh water. China … all means that food consuming pattern in China is also changing, and food consumption in the country will grow in both …