@techreport{NBERw2148,
 title = "Incentive Effects of Price Rises and Payment-System Changes on Chinese Agricultural Productivity Growth",
 author = "John McMillan and John Whalley and Zhu Li Jing",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "2148",
 year = "1987",
 month = "1987",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w2148",
 abstract = {This paper analyzes the relative importance of the major factors underlying the post-1978 increase in China's agricultural productivity. We present a method for assessing the role of price increases and strengthened individual incentives due to the introduction of the responsibility system. Data on pre- and post-1978 Chinese agricultural performance are used to calculate incentive indices, giving the fraction of their marginal product that peasants received under the pre-1978 regime.},
}