@article{97f9c1d7e4704e7d9353be6d43ea0504,
title = "Agricultural market liberalization and household food security in rural China",
abstract = "In the 1990s, prior to its accession to the World Trade Organization, China dramatically reduced market distortions in agriculture. We use a panel of 6,770 rural households from 1989 to 2000 to ask whether agricultural market liberalization affected rural household food security as measured by the share of calories from non-staples. Given that not all households may be able to take advantage of new market opportunities, we focus on the distributional effect of market liberalization. Unlike most previous research on the effects of liberalization, we consider the effects of liberalization on both farm and off-farm income. We find that liberalization primarily improves household food security by increasing off-farm income, and the effects vary greatly by initial food security status and producer types. While many households benefit from liberalization, some food-insecure households producing import-competing products have lower food security as a result of agricultural market liberalization.",
keywords = "Agricultural market liberalization, Household food security, Off-farm income, Rural China, Trade liberalization",
author = "Kathy Baylis and Linlin Fan and Lia Nogueira",
note = "Funding Information: Kathy Baylis is an Associate Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Linlin Fan is an Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University. Lia Nogueira is an Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The authors would like to thank two anonymous referees, Travis Lybbert, Jikun Huang, Nolan Miller, Dean Jolliffe, Azzeddine M. Azzam and Alex Winter-Nelson for comments and suggestions. The authors would also like to thank the financial support from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus Research Board, and Hatch project #ILLU-470-362. This research uses data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS). The authors also thank the National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Carolina Population Center, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the NIH (R01-HD30880, DK056350, and R01-HD38700) and the Fogarty International Center, NIH for financial support for the CHNS data collection and analysis files since 1989. Correspondence to be sent to: lfan3@illinois.edu Funding Information: The authors would like to thank two anonymous referees, Travis Lybbert, Jikun Huang, Nolan Miller, Dean Jolliffe, Azzeddine M. Azzam and Alex Winter-Nelson for comments and suggestions. The authors would also like to thank the financial support from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus Research Board, and Hatch project #ILLU-470-362. This research uses data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS). The authors also thank the National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Carolina Population Center, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the NIH (R01-HD30880, DK056350, and R01-HD38700) and the Fogarty International Center, NIH for financial support for the CHNS data collection and analysis files since 1989. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. All rights reserved.",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/ajae/aay031",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "101",
pages = "250--269",
journal = "American Journal of Agricultural Economics",
issn = "0002-9092",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "1",
}