This study examined the gender-differentiated effects of improved land property rights on labor reallocation using quasi-exogenous variation in the timing of the implementation of the Rural Land Contracting Law in China, which allows farmers to lease out their land. We found that while both men...

This study examines the gender-differentiated effects of improved land property rights on labor reallocation using quasi-exogenous variation in the timing of the implementation of the Rural Land Contracting Law in China, which allows farmers to lease out their land. We find that while both men...

The chemical fertilizer industry has made great contributions to China's food security. Existing studies mainly focus on evaluating fertilizer use efficiency at the farm level whereas little is known about the technical efficiency of Chinese firms producing fertilizer. Based on the Chinese...

Agriculture has made major contributions to China's economic growth and poverty reduction, but the literature has rarely focused on the institutional factors that might underpin such structural transformation and productivity. This paper aims to fill that gap. Drawing on an 8-year panel of 1,200...