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Producing and Procuring Horticultural Crops with Chinese Characteristics: Why Small Farmers Are Thriving and Supermarkets Are Absent in Rural China
Wang, Honglin; Dong, Xiaoxia; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As … communities in the Greater Beijing area, we find small and poor farmers have actively participate in the emergence of China … the paper we document seven characteristics of China's food economy that we believe account for this unique set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805110
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What is keeping the poor out of college?: Enrollment rates, educational barriers and college matriculation in China
Wang, Xiaobing; Liu, Chengfang; Zhang, Linxiu; Luo, Renfu; … - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 2, pp. 131-149
Purpose – With the rise in the opportunity to go to college, the purpose of this paper is to identify if China's rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319737
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Global biofuel production and poverty in China
Huang, Jikun; Yang, Jun; Msangi, Siwa; Rozelle, Scott; … - In: Applied Energy 98 (2012) C, pp. 246-255
agricultural production in China. Rising global commodity prices arising from either positive market conditions for biofuels or … government mandates on biofuel production levels, are transmitted, albeit imperfectly, into China’s domestic food economy. For …), production rises sharply. Imports also fall significantly. Such dynamics help China to realize its self-sufficiency goals more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011040926
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From quantity to quality: Delivering a home-based parenting intervention through China's family planning cadres
Sylvia, Sean; Warrinnier, Nele; Renfu, Luo; Yue, Ai; … - 2018
a randomized experiment evaluating the effects of a home-based parenting program delivered by cadres in China's Family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029846
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Parental investment, school choice, and the persistent benefits of intervention in early childhood
Wang, Lei; Qian, Yiwei; Warrinnier, Nele; Attanasio, … - 2021
We present evidence from a randomized experiment testing the impacts of a six-month early childhood home-visiting program on child outcomes at school entry. Two and a half years after completion of the program, we find persistent effects on child working memory - a key skill of executive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254718
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Parental investment, school choice, and the persistent benefits of intervention in early childhood
Wang, Lei; Qian, Yiwei; Warrinnier, Nele; Attanasio, … - 2021
We present evidence from a randomized experiment testing the impacts of a six-month early childhood home-visiting program on child outcomes at school entry. Two and a half years after completion of the program, we find persistent effects on child working memory - a key skill of executive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479027
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An Empirical Evaluation of Poverty Mapping Methodology: Explicitly Spatial versus Implicitly Spatial Approach
Olivia, Susan; Gibson, John; Smith, Aaron D.; Rozelle, Scott - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2009
fully account for this spatial autocorrelation. In this paper, we use data from Shaanxi, China with exact measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070218
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Poverty, population and environmental degradation in China
Rozelle, Scott - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 22 (1997) 3, pp. 229-251
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001336165
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Persistent poverty in rural China : where, why, and how to escape?
Glauben, Thomas; Herzfeld, Thomas; Rozelle, Scott; … - 2012
Using rural household panel data from three Chinese provinces, this paper identifies determinants of long-term poverty and tests the duration dependence on the probability to leave poverty. Special emphasis is given to the selection of the poverty line and inter-regional differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588447
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From quantity to quality : delivering a home-based parenting intervention through China's family planning cadres
Sylvia, Sean; Warrinnier, Nele; Renfu, Luo; Yue, Ai; … - 2018
a randomized experiment evaluating the effects of a home-based parenting program delivered by cadres in China's Family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011854164