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Journal papers

1. Socioeconomics, welfare issues

Glauben, T., Herzfeld, T., Rozelle, S. and Wang, X. (2012) Persistent Poverty in Rural China: Where, Why, and How to Escape?World Development 40(4), 784-795.

Bulte, E., Zhang, X. and Heerink, N. (2011) China’s one-child policy and “the mystery of missing women”: Ethnic minorities and male-biased sex ratios, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 73: 21-39.

 

2. Labor, Migration

 Wang, X., Huang, J., Zhang, L. and Rozelle, S. (2011) The rise of migration and the fall of self employment in rural China’s labor market, China Economic Review 22 (4), 573-584.

Bro­sig, S., Glau­ben, T., Herz­feld, T., Wang, X. (2009): Per­sis­tence of full-​ and part-​ti­me far­ming in Sou­thern Chi­na. Chi­na Eco­no­mic Re­view, 20/2009, S.pp. 360-​371.

Thomas Glauben, Thomas, Herzfeld, Xiaobing, Wang. 2008. Labor market participation of Chinese agricultural households: Empirical evidence from Zhejiang province Food Policy 33 (4), 329-340.

Xiaobing Wang. 2007. Labor market behavior of Chinese rural households during transition, Ph.d dissertation, Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Central and Eastern Europe Vol.42, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe, Halle (Saale), Germany.

Stephan Brosig, Thomas Glauben, Thomas Herzfeld, Scott Rozelle, Xiaobing Wang. 2007. The dynamics of Chinese rural households’ participation in labor markets Agricultural Economics 37 (2/3): 167-178.

Xiaobing Wang, Thomas Herzfeld, Thomas Glauben. 2007. Labor allocation in transition: evidence from Chinese rural households. China Economic Review 18: 287-308.

3. Agricultural Markets

Bro­sig, S., Weit­zel, E., Po­g­ho­syan, T., Ro­zel­le, S., Glau­ben, T. (2007):
Spa­ti­al Mar­ket In­te­gra­ti­on and the Dy­na­mics of Tran­sac­tion Costs in the Chi­ne­se Soy Be­an Mar­ket. The Em­pi­ri­cal Eco­no­mics Let­ters, 6/2007, S.432-​437.

4. Rural education and health issues

Wang, X., Zhang, L., Luo, R., Wang, G., Chen, Y., Medina, A., Eggleston, K., Rozelle, S., Smith, S., 2012. Soil-Transmitted Helminth infections and correlated risk factors in preschool and school-aged children in rural southwest China, PLOS ONE 7(9): e45939.

Miller, G., Luo, R., Zhang, L., PhD,3 Sean Sylvia, S., Shi Y.,Foo, P., Zhao, Q., Martorell R., Medina, A., Rozelle, S., A Cluster Randomized Trial of Provider Incentives for Anemia Reduction in Rural China, British Medical Journal (forthcoming).

Luo, R., Zhang, L., Liu, C., Zhao, Q., Shi, Y., Miller, G., Yu, E., Sharbono, B., Medina, A., Rozelle, S., Martorell, R. (2011) Anaemia among Students of Rural China’s Elementary Schools: Prevalence and Correlates in Ningxia and Qinghai’s Poor Counties; Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Vol.29 (5): 471-485.

Luo, R, Zhang, L., Liu, C., Zhao, Q., Shi, Y., Rozelle, S., and Sharbono, B. (2011) Behind before, they begin: The challenge of Early Childhood education in rural China; Australasian Journal of Early Childhood (forthcoming)

Luo, R., Shi, Y., Zhang, L., Liu, C., Rozelle, S., Sharbono, B., Yue, A., Zhao, Q. and Martorell, R. (2012) Nutrition and Educational Performance in Rural China’s Elementary Schools: Results of a Randomized Control Trial in Shaanxi Province; Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 60: 735-772. 

 Wang, X., Liu, C., Zhang, L., Luo, R., Shi, Y., Rozelle, S., Sharbono, B. (2011) College Education and the Poor in China: Documenting the Hurdles to Educational Attainment and College Matriculation. Asian Pacific Education Review 12, 533-546.

 Wang, Xiaobing, Chengfang Liu, Linxiu Zhang, Renfu Luo, Thomas Glauben, Yaojiang Shi, Scott Rozelle & Brian Sharbono (2011): What is Keeping the Poor out of College? Enrollment Rates, Educational Barriers and College Matriculation in China, China Agricultural Economic Review 3(2): 131-149.

 Liu, Chengfang, Linxiu Zhang, Renfu Luo, Scott Rozelle, Brian Sharbono, Jennifer Adams, Yaojiang Shi, Ai Yue, Hongbin Li, Xiaobing Wang & Thomas Glauben (2011): Early Commitment on Financial Aid and College Decision Making of Poor Students: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Rural China, Economics of Education Review 30: 627-640.

5. Agricultural production and productivity

Hou, L., Huang, J., Wang, X., Hu, R., Xue, C. (2012) Farmer's knowledge on GM technology and pesticide use: Evidence from papaya production in China. Journal of Integrative Agriculture 12 (12), 2107-2115.

 

Rungsuriyawiboon, S., Wang, X. (2012) Investigating agricultural productivity improvements in transition economies, Chinese Agricultural Economies Review 4(4), 450-467.

 

Huang, J., Hu, R., Cai, J., Wang, X. (2012) Human research capacity in Chinese agbiotech, nature biotechnology 30(10), 1007.

 

Hu, R., Cai, J., Huang, J., Wang, X. (2012) Silos hamstring Chinese plant biotech sector, nature biotechnology 30 (8), 749-750.

 

Wang, X., Hockmann, H., Bai, J. (2012) Technical efficiency and producers' individual technology: Accounting for within and between regional farm heterogeneity, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 60(4), 561-576.

 

Hou, L., Zhang, Y., Zhan, J., Glauben, T. (2012): Marginal revenue of land and total factor productivity in Chinese agriculture: Evidence from spatial analysis, Journal of Geographical Sciences, 22 (1): 167-178.

 

Zhang Y., and B. Brümmer (2011) Productivity change and the effects of policy reform in China's agriculture since 1979. Asian-Pacific Economic Literature 25(2):131-150.

Zhang, Y., Wang, X., Glauben, T. & B. Brümmer (2011): The impact of land reallocation on technical efficiency: evidence from China. Agricultural Economics 42/4: 495-507.

Wang, X., Rungsuriyawiboon, S. (2010): Agricultural efficiency, technical change and productivity in China, Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 207-227.

Rungsuriyawiboon, S., Wang, X. (2009) Agricultural productivity growth in transitional and traditional economies in Asia. Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 23(2): 52-72.

Brümmer, B., Glauben, T., Lu, W. (2006) Policy reform and productivity change in Chinese agriculture: A distance function approach. Journal of Development Economics, 81: 61-79.

 

6. Mangagement and organization

Sultan, T., Larsen, K. (2011): Do Institutional Incentives Matter for Farmers to Join Cooperatives: A Comparison of Two Chinese Regions  Journal of Rural Cooperationt, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 1-18.

 

7. Agricultural policy

Lin, H., Glauben, T., Yang, J., He, L., (2012): Impacts of the US Farm Bill 2008 on China’s agricultural production and rural poverty, agricultural economics (Zemedelská ekonomika) 58 (4), pp. 157–164.

Huang, J., Wang, X., Zhi, H., Huang, Z., Rozelle, S. (2011): Subsidies and distortions in China´s agriculture: evidence from producer-level data, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 53-71.

8. Consumer studies

Yu X. and D. Abler (2010) Interactions between Cigarette and Alcohol Consumption in Rural China, European Journal of Health Economics. Vol. (11):151-160.

Yu X. and D. Abler (2008) The Demand for Food Quality in Rural China, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 91(1): 57-69.

9. Natural resource use, environment

Yang, B., Brosig, S., Chen, J. (2013): Environmental impact of foreign versus domestic capital investment in China, Journal of Agricultural Economics 64/1: 245-271.

Sun, Z. and D. Müller (2012) A framework for modeling payments for ecosystem services with agent-based models, Bayesian belief networks and opinion dynamics models. Environmental Modelling & Software, forthcoming.

Shi, X., Heerink, N. and Qu, F. (2011) Does off-farm employment contribute to agriculture-based environmental pollution? New insights from a village-level analysis in Jiangxi Province, China, China Economic Review 22: 524-533. 

Heerink, N., Qu, F. and Shi, X. (2011) Introduction to the symposium on sustainable natural resource use in rural China, China Economic Review 22: 441-443.

Tan, R., Qu, F., Heerink, N. and Mettepenningen, E. (2011) Rural to urban land conversion in China - How large is the over-conversion and what are its welfare implications? China Economic Review 22: 474-484.

Qu, F., Kuyvenhoven, A., Shi, X. and Heerink, N. (2011) Sustainable natural resource use in rural China: Recent trends and policies, China Economic Review 22: 444-460.

Working papers / conference contributions

1.Poverty and income inequality

Thomas Glauben, Thomas Herzfeld, Xiaobing Wang. The Persistence of Poverty in Rural China: Applying an Ordered Probit and a Hazard Approach. working paper.

http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/25249/1/cp060560.pdf

2. Farm organization

Sultan, T., Larsen, K., Huang, Z. (2011):
Learning by Doing - Farmers Specialized Cooperatives Development in China. presentation held at 5th International European Forum on System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks, Innsbruck- Igls/Austria, 14.-18.02.2011.

Sultan, T., Larsen, K. (2010): Do 'Institutional' Incentives Matter for Farmers to Join Cooperatives - A Comparison of Two Chinese Regions with Different Levels of Economic and Social Development. presentation held at 20th Annual World Forum and Symposium - navigating the global food system in a new era, Boston/USA, 19.-22. 06., 2010.

3. Labour market

Castro-Campos, B. & M. Petrick: Ethnic Minorities and Occupational Outcome in Rural Southern China. Contributed Paper prepared for presentation at the 2009 EAAE PhD Workshop, Giessen, Germany, September 10-11, 2009.  download pdf

4. Farm productivity

Wang, X., Rungsuriyawiboon, S. (2009): Agricultural productivity growth in transitional and traditional economies in Asia, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 23, Policy Brief 13

 

Jia, L. & M. Petrick: How land fragmentation affects agricultural labour productivity: evidence from China. Contributed Paper presented at CES Conference 2010, Xiamen, China, June 19-21, 2010  download pdf

5. International agricultural trade policies

Lin, H.: Impacts of EU CAP Reform on China's agricultural production and rural poverty. Contributed Paper presented at the 15th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Sydney, Australia, July 15-17, 2009 download pdf

6. Socioeconomic and ecological impacts of Payments for Ecosystems Services programs

The effects of the Sloping Land Conversion Program on land use and income in Yunnan/China.
Presentation on project state by Jens Frayer at ICRAF, Kunming, Yunnan, November 5, 2009. download pdf (1MB)
Presentation on project state by Zhanli "Jerry" Sun and Jens Frayer at IAMO, January 2010. download pdf (6MB)