Effect of Migration on Children’s Educational Performance in Rural China XINXIN CHEN, QIUQIONG HUANG, SCOTT ROZELLE, YAOJIANG SHI & LINXIU ZHANG College of Economics, Zhejiang Gongshang University, 149 Jiaogong Road, Hangzhou 310035, China. Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 1994 Buford Avenue, St Paul, MN 55108, USA. Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University, Encina ...

The paper examines contracts in new agricultural industries that exhibit learning-bydoing. A dynamic model analyzes a contract’s effect on production decisions, as well as investments in processing capacity and learning. The results of the model are applied qualitatively to the biomass electricity industry. Submitted by: Conrad J. Choinière Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics Universit...

_________________________________________________ James Oehmke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and L. H. Bailey Scholar at Michigan State University. This research was sponsored in part by the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station. Research assistance was provided by Ben Chaffin. I would like to thank four anonymous referees for comments on an earlier ve...

School of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, 6009 WA Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, Armidale, 2351 NSW Department of Primary Industries, Bendigo, 3554 Victoria Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Charles Sturt University, Albury, 2640 NSW Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 7001 Tasmania...