About REAP - Project Team, Collaborators and Research Affiliates
About REAP - Project Team, Collaborators and Research Affiliates
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
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Co-Director & Principal Investigator, REAP
Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University Scott Rozelle's research focuses almost exclusively on China and is concerned with: a) the emergence and evolution of markets and other economic institutions in the transition process and their implications for equity and efficiency; b) the economics of poverty and inequality; and c) agricultural policy. He is fluent in Mandarin and has established a research program in which he has close working ties with Chinese collaborators and policymakers. |
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Project Manager for Technology and Human Capital, REAP
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University Matthew Boswell manages the technology and human capital program at REAP. He has extensive experience managing development projects in northwestern China and has held research and analysis positions in several US-based think tanks. He holds an MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University, focusing on the history and politics of China’s northwestern frontier. He is a fluent Mandarin speaker. |
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Project Manager for Keeping Kids in School, REAP
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University James Chu manages the Keeping Kids in School projects at REAP. He has five years of experience researching educational issues in China. His research experience involves extensive quantitative and qualitative fieldwork in Shaanxi province and Beijing migrant schools. He has also designed and implemented several projects in Beijing benefiting migrant students. He is fluent in Mandarin and received his MA in Sociology at Stanford University. |
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Project Manager for Health & Nutrition, REAP
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University Alexis Medina has been researching the economics of social issues in China for almost ten years. She speaks fluent Mandarin, and received her MA in East Asian Studies from Yale University. She has extensive experience in international project management, including conducting health-related fieldwork in rural areas of Shandong province and performing data analysis and international project support as a Research Associate at Harvard’s School of Public Health. Her current projects include deworming efforts among Chinese schoolchildren and providing vitamin supplements to mothers and infants. |
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Research Associate, REAP
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University Jennifer Xu joined REAP as a Research Associate in 2011. She brings a range of experience from conducting economic research and analysis for international economic and trade development groups to program evaluation work in rural southwestern China. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Gwen Moore Children of China Fund, which supports children's literacy programs in rural China and volunteers with Wokai, a China-based microfinance organization. She holds a BA in Asian Studies from Bowdoin College and speaks fluent Mandarin. |
Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Director, REAP-China
Deputy Director Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing)
Linxiu Zhang currently is Deputy Director of the Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) where she oversees a research programme on "Integrated Rural Urban Development and Anti-Poverty Policy". Most of her research concentrates on policy relevant studies on agricultural and rural development in China, including public investment in agriculture and its impact on growth, poverty and inequality, poverty and environmental dynamics, gender and household nutrition, and integrated resource management at community level, community governance and public goods investments, rural basic education and the New Cooperative Medical System (NCMS). She has published widely both in domestic and international professional journals. She holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Reading, England, an Msc in Agricultural Economics, from the Graduate School of the University of the Philippines at Los Banos, the Philippines., and a BSc in Agricultural Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China. |
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Renfu Luo
Managing Director, REAP-China Professor Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing) Renfu Luo is a senior researcher of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received his Master degree from Henan University in 2002 and PhD in Science from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2006. The main issue of his research focuses on China's rural development, including work on rural public investment and rural development, rural education and provision of public services. |
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Managing Director, REAP-China
Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing) Chengfang Liu is a post-doctoral researcher in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She obtained her Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics in 2008 from the University of California, Davis. Her research is focused on public goods and services provision, and draws on data that she and field teams she has directed have collected in rural China over the past ten years. Chengfang has investigated the school mergers that have taken place recently in rural China, and she is currently working on a book about education and academic performance in rural China. |
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Hongmei Yi
Research Team, REAP-China Research Associate Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing) Hongmei Yi is a researcher of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She received her PhD in Agricultural Economics from CAS in 2009. Her research interests mainly focused on human capital investment, social protection network, and health policy reform in rural China. |
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Xiaobing Wang
Research Team, REAP-China Research Associate Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing) Xiaobing Wang is a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She earned her doctoral degree from Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Germany. Her research is focused on labor market development, poverty and productivity analysis in China and other transition countries in Asia and Europe. Xiaobing has investigated barriers to education in rural China, and is currently leading a project to deliver basic health interventions to Chinese schoolchildren in underprivileged areas. She has published several papers in Food Policy, China Economics Review, and Agricultural Economics. |
Northwest Social-Economic Development Research Center
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Yaojiang Shi
Director of Educational Affairs, REAP-China Chair & Professor Northwest Social-Economic Development Research Center (Xi'an, Shaanxi) Shi Yaojiang is Professor of Economics and Management at Northwest University in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China. He also is Director of the Northwest Socioeconomic Development Research Center there. His research interests include the emergence and development of economic enterprises in rural China, as well as the process of political nominations in rural areas of China and how political incentives are affecting government performance. Shi's work is increasingly focused on China's education reforms and identifying though empirical work important leverage points for education policy to address the needs of the rural poor. |
Research Affiliates
Xinxin Chen
Associate Professor
School of Economics, Zhejiang Gongshang University
Xinxin Chen's research focuses on rural development in China. She is currently investigating the effect of social and economic changes on primary school students in rural china.
Thomas Glauben
Professor
Agricultural and Food Economics at the University Halle-Wittenberg
Director
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Germany.
Thomas Glauben's research interests are in agricultural and food economics, industrial organization, econometric methods, and transition and emerging economies.
Li Han
Research Team, REAP-China
Assistant Professor
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Li Han's research interests are development economics and political economy. Her recent work examines the recent wave of centralization reforms in rural education system in China.
John Kennedy
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science, University of Kansas
John Kennedy's research focuses on local governance and resource management in rural China.
Xiangzhi Kong
Professor and Executive Deputy Dean
School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University
Xiangzhi Kong's research focuses on farmers cooperatives and analysis of agricultural policies.
Hongbin Li
Research Team, REAP-China
Professor
School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
Hongbin Li's research focuses on two areas: 1) the incentives, behaviors and performance of governments, banks and enterprises in the context of economic transition, and 2) education, health, demographic and labor issues in economic development. He obtained his PhD in economics in 2001 from Stanford University.
Tao Li
Research Team, REAP-China
Associate Professor
HSBC School of Business, Peking University
Tao Li's research focuses on education and labor policies in China. He recently designed and implemented a new remedial education program which used an incentive contract to encourage peer tutors to help their under-performing classmates. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University during 2008-2009.
Prashant Loyalka
Assistant Research Fellow
China Institute for Educational Finance Research, Peking University
Prashant Loyolka's research focuses on education in rural China.
Xiaopeng Pang
Associate Professor
School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University
Xiaopeng Pang's research focuses on village elections in China, poverty reduction and rural development, cooperatives, agricultural organizations and policy, as well as gender perspective economic issues in China.
Yingquan Song
Associate Professor
China Institute for Educational Finance Research, Peking University
Yingquan Song's research focuses on economics of education, education finance, financing vocational education and training in China, financing education for migrant children in China's urban areas, and early education and childcare.
Johan Swinnen
Professor
Development Economics and Director of LICOS Center for Institutions and Economic Performance at the University of Leuven (KUL) in Belgium.
Johan Swinnen's research focuses on institutional reform and development, globalization and international integration, media economics, and agriculture and food policy.
Sean Sylvia
PhD candidate
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland
Sean Sylvia’s research focuses on health and education in rural China. He has been involved with REAP since 2007 when he was a visiting scholar at the Northwest Socioeconomic Development Research Center in Xi'an. Sean is currently working with REAP to carry out a randomized trial that provides incentives to rural primary school principals to reduce anemia and improve test scores.
Sean SylviaA1ndez/">Marcos Vera-Hernández
Lecturer
Department of Economics, University College London
Marcos Vera-Hernández' research interests include development economics, health economics, and applied microeconomics. He is currently working with REAP to carry out a randomized trial that provides incentives to schools principals in China to reduce anemia and improve test scores.
Lei Wang
Associate Professor, West China Financial Research Centre, International Business School Deputy Director, International Programs Office, Shaanxi Normal University
Lei Wang’s research interests include financial risk management, rural finance in China and development economics.
Junxia Zeng
PhD candidate
School of Agriculture Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China
Junxia Zeng received a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council and was a visiting researcher at Stanford University in 2011. Her research focuses on education in rural China, poverty reduction and economic issues from a gender perspective in China.