TY  - JOUR
AU  - McMillan,John
AU  - Whalley,John
AU  - Jing,Zhu Li
TI  - Incentive Effects of Price Rises and Payment-System Changes on Chinese Agricultural Productivity Growth
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 2148
PY  - 1987
Y2  - 1987
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2148
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2148.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
John McMillan
E-Mail: N/A user is deceased

John Whalley
Department of Economics
Social Science Centre
University of Western Ontario
London, ON N6A 5C2
CANADA
Tel: 519/661-3509
Fax: 519/661-3666
E-Mail: jwhalley@uwo.ca
AB  - 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.
ER  -