Dr. Xiaobing Wang

Professor with tenure

School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences (SAAS)

Senior Research Fellow

China Center for Agricultural Policy (CCAP)

Peking University

Email: xbwang.ccap@pku.edu.cn

Research Area

Agricultural Economics, Development Economics 

Short Bio

Dr. Xiaobing Wang is  professor in China Center for Agricultural Policy (CCAP), School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University. She obtained Ph.d degree from Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany in 2007. Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transitional Economies (IAMO), Germany. She is the leading scientist of the Major Project of National Social Science Fund of China and preside several projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). She published more than 90 peer-reviewed journal articles including those on Nature Biotechnology, American Journal of Agricultural Economics and World Development, etc. She obtained Leibniz-Wuchspreis 2008. She is honored as the Highly Cited Chinese Researchers (2020, 2021 and 2022) for the exceptional research performance in the field of Agricultural and Forestry Economics & Management by ELSEVIER.  

Selected Publications

1.  Wang Xiaobing*, Fangxiao Zhao, Xu Tian*, Shi Min*, Stephan von Cramon-Taubade, Jikun Huang, Shenggan Fan, 2022. How online food delivery platforms contributed to the resilience of the urban food system in China during the COVID-19 pandemic. Global Food Security 35, 100658.

2.  Liang Ruobing, Xiaobing Wang*, Futoshi Yamauchi. 2021. Cotton revolution and widow chastity in Ming and Qing China, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 103(1), 232-252.

3.  Min Shi, Xiaobing Wang*, Xiaohua Yu, 2021. Does dietary knowledge affect household’s food waste in the developing economy of China? Food Policy 98, 101896.

4.  Wang Xiaobing*, Futoshi Yamauchi, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, 2020. What constrains mechanization in Chinese agriculture? Roles of farm size and fragmentations, China Economic Review 62, 101221.

5.  Ma Wanglin, Xiaobing Wang*. 2020. Internet use, sustainable production practices and rural incomes: Evidence from China. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 64(4), 1087-1112.

6.  Wang Xiaobing, Renfu Luo, Linxiu Zhang*, Scott Rozelle. 2017. The education gap of China’s migrant children and rural counterparts, Journal of Development Studies 53 (11), 1865-1881.

7.  Wang Xiaobing, Futoshi Yamauchi, Jikun Huang*, 2016. Rising wages, mechanization and the substitution between capital and labor: Evidence from small scale farm system in China, Agricultural Economics 47, 309-317.

8.  Wang Xiaobing, Futoshi Yamauchi*, Keijiro Otsuka, Jikun Huang, 2016. Wage growth, landholding and mechanization in Chinese agriculture, World Development 86, 30-45.

9.  Huang, Jikun, Xiaobing Wang* and Scott Rozelle, 2013. The subsidization of farming households in China's agriculture, Food Policy 41, 124-132.

10. Hu Ruifa, Xiaobing Wang, Jinyang Cai, Jikun Huang*, 2013. Patents and China's Research and Development in Agricultural Biotechnology, Nature Biotechnology 31 (11), 986-987.

*Corresponding author 

Courses Taught at Peking University

History of agricultural economy and its quantitative research;

Food Security: Political Economics and Psychology.