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Unintended effect of refrigerator usage on household food waste: Evidence from rural China Open

L.C. Zhao, Shi Min, Xiaobing Wang, Xiaohua Yu · 2025

The influence of improved wheat and maize varieties on infant mortality in China Open

Xiaobing Wang, Xinyu Liu, Shi Min, Songqing Jin, Jikun Huang , et al. · 2025

The diffusion of high-yielding crop varieties has been a key driver for agricultural productivity. This study examines the relationship between the adoption of high-yielding crop varieties of two staple crops—wheat and maize—and infant mor…

Consumer cognition and attitude towards artificial meat in China Open

Shi Min, Minda Yang, Ping Qing · 2024

This study focuses on Chinese consumers’ cognition and attitude towards artificial meat, including cultured meat and plant-based meat. The attitude is measured by three aspects: willingness to accept (WTA), willingness to taste (WTT), and …

Unintended Effect of Refrigerator Usage on Household Food Waste: Evidence from Rural China Open

L.C. Zhao, Shi Min, Ziaobing Wang, Xiaohua Yu · 2024

Farmers' perceptions of drought-severity and the impacts on ex-ante and ex-post adaptations to droughts: Evidence from maize farmers in China Open

Lingling Hou, Shi Min, Qiuqiong Huang, Jikun Huang · 2023

This study examines the impacts of farmers' drought-severity perceptions on two adaptation strategies—ex-ante use of drought-tolerant varieties and ex-post irrigation use—employing a large-scale survey data of maize farmers in northern Chi…

Food Security Resilience and Risk Management Strategy in China in the Context of "Dual Circulation" Open

Ping Qing, Xiuxin Deng, Shi Min, Jian Li, Xiaoyun Li , et al. · 2023

Ensuring national food security is crucial for strengthening the agriculture sector of China, and it holds both theoretical and practical significance in the context of the “dual circulation” (i. e., domestic and international economic cir…

How online food delivery platforms contributed to the resilience of the urban food system in China during the COVID-19 pandemic Open

Xiaobing Wang, Fangxiao Zhao, Xu Tian, Shi Min, Stephan von Cramon‐Taubadel , et al. · 2022

We use high-frequency data to quantify the nature and performance of online food delivery platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic in urban China, and to estimate the short- and long-term effects of lockdown and reopening measures. A stagger…

The Impacts of Urbanization and Dietary Knowledge on Seaweed Consumption in China Open

Jingsi Peng, Shi Min, Ping Qing, Minda Yang · 2021

Edible seaweed, a nutrient-rich and sustainable food, has a long dietary history in China. To get a better understanding of the seaweed consumption of consumers in China, this study investigates the quantity and trend of seaweed consumptio…

The role of rubber farming in household dietary diversity in the upper Mekong region, Southwest China Open

Yajie Luo, Shi Min, Junfei Bai · 2021

The expansion of cash tree crops, such as natural rubber, in the tropical region of South Asia has resulted in an agricultural transformation from subsistence production to market‐oriented production, implicating the local ecological envir…

Regional Climate Extremes and Farmer’s Perception: Impact on Acceptance of Environmentally-Friendly Rubber Plantations in Southwest China Open

Shaoze Jin, Lijuan Zhang, Shi Min · 2021

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on consumers' food safety knowledge and behavior in China Open

Shi Min, Cheng Xiang, Xiao-heng ZHANG · 2020

Determinants of Livestock Insurance Demand: Experimental Evidence from Chinese Herders Open

Pengfei Liu, Lingling Hou, Dongqing Li, Shi Min, Yueying Mu · 2020

We provide the first evidence about insurance preferences among herders in pastoral regions in China. We estimate herders’ preferences for alternative insurance configurations based on a hypothetical and a consequential choice experiment, …

COVID-19 in the Greater Mekong Subregion: how resilient are rural households? Open

Hermann Waibel, Ulrike Grote, Shi Min, Trung Thành Nguyễn, Suwanna Praneetvatakul · 2020

School Quality and Peer Effects: Explaining Differences in Academic Performance between China’s Migrant and Rural Students Open

Xiaobing Wang, Zhouhang Yuan, Shi Min, Scott Rozelle · 2020

In China, parents have a choice to either send their children to private migrant schools in urban areas or to keep them in their own county. It is unclear whether the academic differences of students in rural schools and those in private m…

The impact of migration on the food consumption and nutrition of left-behind family members: Evidence from a minority mountainous region of southwestern China Open

Shi Min, Lingling Hou, Hermann Waibel, Jikun Huang, Yueying Mu · 2019

Marry to rubber? An investigation on the matrilocal residence of smallholder rubber farmers in southwest China Open

X. Wang, Shi Min, B. Junfei · 2018

This paper constructs a simple model of matrilocal residence with the heterogeneities in family labor and resource endowments of the wives households. Using the data collected from a comprehensive household survey of small-scale rubber far…

The Asymmetric Response of Farmers to the Expected Change of Rubber Price: the Roles of Sunk Cost and Path Dependency Open

Shi Min, Xueyuan Wang, Mingjuan Liu, Joshua Huang · 2018

This study examines the impacts of sunk cost and path dependency on farmers' responses to the expected price change. A simple choice experiment was implemented to collect the responses of farmers to the hypothetical change in rubber price.…

Livelihood responses of smallholder farmers in Southwest China to the decline in rubber prices Open

Shaoze Jin, Hermann Waibel, Shi Min, Jiaqi Huang · 2018

This paper explores diversification for land and labor by smallholder farmers in Southwest China in response to the rubber price declines. Panel data of some 600 smallholder rubber farmers in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China in 2012 and 2014…

The Economics of Smallholder Rubber Farming in a Mountainous Region of Southwest China: Elevation, Ethnicity, and Risk Open

Shi Min, Hermann Waibel, Georg Cadisch, Gerhard Langenberger, Junfei Bai , et al. · 2017

While the expansion of smallholder rubber farming in southwest China has contributed to the local rural economy, it has also had negative environmental consequences. The economics and potential risks of smallholder rubber farming remain un…

Economic analysis of rubber land use systems in southern China Open

Shi Min · 2016

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Demographics, societal aging, and meat consumption in China Open

Shi Min, Junfei Bai, James L. Seale, Thomas Wahl · 2015

Drawn on the data collected by surveying 1 340 urban households from six cities in China, this paper estimates the impacts of demographic structure and population aging on household meat consumption, by jointly considering meat consumed at…

Adoption of intercropping among smallholder rubber farmers in Xishuangbanna, China Open

Shi Min, Jikun Huang, Junfei Bai, Hermann Waibel · 2015

Rubber plantations have been expanding rapidly in Mekong Region including Southern China. OFten this was accompanied by negative effects for ecoystems. Intercropping in rubber plantation is suggested as a means of reducing environmental an…

Demographics, Societal Aging, and Meat Consumption in China Open

Shi Min, Junfei Bai, James L. Seale, Thomas Wahl · 2015

Drawn on the data collected by surveying 1,340 urban households from 6 cities in China, this paper estimates the impacts of demographic structure and population aging on household meat consumption, by jointly considering meat consumed at-h…

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