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Conservation Payments, Liquidity Constraints and Off-Farm Labor:
Impact of the Grain for Green Program on Rural Households in China
Emi Uchida*,ζ Scott Rozelle^ and Jintao Xu§
t Department OfEnvironmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island
t Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, and
Asian Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
§ Department ofEnvironmental Sciences, Beijing University
Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the American Agricultural Economics
Association Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, July 29-August 1, 2007
Copyright 2007 by Emi Uchida, Scott Rozelle and Jintao Xu. All rights reserved. Readers may
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JEL classification: J22, O13, Q23
Keywords: Payments for environmental services, off-farm labor supply, Grain for Green program,
China, program evaluation
* Corresponding author. Address: 219 Coastal Institute, Department of Environmental and Natural Resource
Economics, University of Rhode Island, 1 Greenhouse Road, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881. Tel: +1-401-879196.
e-mail: [email protected]
The authors are grateful for the assistance in survey design, data collection and entry by Michael Bennett, Yazhen
Gong, Zhigang Xu, Fujin Yi, and other members of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of
Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The authors acknowledge
the support from Ford Foundation, National Science Foundation of China (70024001) and the Agricultural
Extension Service of Rhode Island (AESxxxx) for financial assistance. Scott Rozelle is a member of the Giannini
Foundation. Please do not cite without permission from the authors.