Environmental pollution and income inequality have become two salient issues in China. To
achieve a green economic transformation, China urgently needs to develop renewable …

In recent decades, cheap labor has played a central role in the Chinese model, which has
relied on expanded participation in world trade as a main driver of growth. At the beginning …

This article reviews recent developments in China's agricultural domestic support policy,
especially the transition from taxing farmers and agriculture to providing direct subsidies to …

Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the
migrants in urban China come from, paying close attention to intra-provincial vs. inter …

Understanding the effects of the off-farm employment of rural laborers on agricultural land
use is essential to promote farmland transfer and enhance rural development in China. This …

This paper aims to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine investments, and
the demand for machine services using farm panel data from China. Recently, China's …

Agriculture made major contributions to China's growth and poverty reduction, but the
literature has rarely focused on the institutional factors that might underpin such structural …

This paper examines the effect of homeownership status on individual subjective wellbeing
indicators in urban China using a large nationally representative dataset. It is the first to …

We examine the wage trends of ordinary workers and the wage convergence between
unskilled and skilled workers in China. First, we find that wages in all non-agricultural …

Does outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) create or diminish jobs in the home country?
We develop a theoretical model to study the relation between OFDI and domestic …