Technological Change: The Re-Discovery of the Engine of Productivity Growth in China's Rural Economy
| dc.creator | Huang, Jikun | |
| dc.creator | Rozelle, Scott | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T14:06:38Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T08:51:47Z | |
| dc.description | The purpose of the paper is to explain the determinants of technological adoption and demonstrate the importance of technological change in rice yield growth during China's reform period. Using a unique data set on the nation's rice economy, in the first part of a two stage econometric model, adoption of new technologies (hybrid rice and single/double cropped rice) is shown to be chosen on the basis of two basic factors: the availability of a new technologies and the willingness of producers to adopt them. Treating technology as an endogenous factor, a set of rice supply and derived demand equations is subsequently estimated, and the parameters are used in a decomposition analysis. While institutional and environmental factors are found to be significant detenninants of post-reform productivity increases, technological change has been shown to be the greatest across all periods, and can account for most of the growth in recent years. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.198197 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/198197/files/agecon-occpapers-1997-037_1_.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/198197 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/603371 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/198197 | |
| dc.title | Technological Change: The Re-Discovery of the Engine of Productivity Growth in China's Rural Economy | |
| dc.type | Text |