Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the adverse selection in participation in the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS), as well as in outpatient and inpatient service utilization, in Chaoyang, Beijing, China. Design/methodology/approach – Probit model is established to...

The great migration from Chinese farms to cities during the past several decades ranks among the most economically consequential of modern population movements. We use a national sample of rice-producing Chinese households to examine the effects of that migration on agricultural production. Our...

Purpose – The present article presents a first-look into the hired-labor market in Chinese household farms using data from a national household survey conducted by the Research Center for the Rural Economy (RCRE) at China's Ministry of Agriculture. More specifically, the purpose of this paper...

Purpose – The present article presents a first‐look into the hired‐labor market in Chinese household farms using data from a national household survey conducted by the Research Center for the Rural Economy (RCRE) at China's Ministry of Agriculture. More specifically, the purpose of this...