Rural Household Behavior in China

This monograph interprets China's macro-economic reform concerning the countryside, agriculture and farmers (known as Sannong) from the micro perspective of rural households. It makes full use of the survey data of hundreds of villages from the fixed observation sites for decades, and the first-hand data of rural households in different representative regions, ensuring the book to be reliable in evidence, meaningful in historical study, and systematic in comparative examination, thus provides a panoramic view of rural China in the reform years. The author skillfully uses the scientific research methods to analyze from surface to inside, and from micro to macro, with the combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, making the analysis more insightful.

Explores the transition of rural China through the micro lens of households Based on data of rural households collected and accumulated from the fixed observation sites and research fields for thirty years One of the first studies to systematically analyze rural household behavior and its transition in China

Autorentext

Qinghua Shi is a productive researcher and an award-winning professor in agricultural economics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Yan Gao's research interests include rural collective economy, institutional reform and regional transformation, especially in suburban areas of large cities.

Professor Shailaja Fennell has a particular focus on local and sub-national decision making in rural and urban policy design, agricultural sustainability and food security; youth, migration and employment aspirations; provision of public goods in the spheres of education and health.

Inhalt

Part I. Historical Development.- 1. Rural Household Economy over 30 Years.- Part II. Farmers' Behavior.- 2. Rural Saving Behavior.- 3. Migration Intention.- 4. Rural Employment.- 5. Labor Transfer Mechanism.- Part III. Rural Policies.- 6. The Trial of 'Tax for Fee'.- 7. The Implementation of New Rural Policies.- 8. Effects of New Rural Policies.- 9. The Effects of Tax Reform.- Part IV. The Land System.- 10. The Law and Farmers.- 11. The Deficiency and Reform of the Land Acquisition System.