Scott Rozelle
Biographic Data
| ID | 177561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Rozelle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Rozelle |
| SIGNATURE | ROZELLE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5053-0243 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 204 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 930 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 204 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Care Under Strain
Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data collected in 2024 and 2025 in a relatively well-off rural area of China, this study examines the mental health of primary caregivers of young children and its correlates. The quantitative data show high prevalence of cognitive (40%), language (42%), and motor (20%) developmental delays among the children. Caregiver mental health problems may be one possible contributing factor given that approximately …
Intermediary Services and Rural Land Market Competition
Mental well-being in rural schools
E‐parenting literacy and early childhood development
Caregivers' ability to access, engage with, and critically evaluate digital information on parenting practices (henceforth, “e‐parenting literacy”) is emerging as an increasingly important determinant of early childhood development (ECD) outcomes. Therefore, the current study provides empirical evidence of the role of e‐parenting literacy for ECD outcomes of 6‐ to 24‐month‐olds ( N = 564) in rural households in a coastal province in East‐China. T…
School Feeding Program and Health Outcomes Among School‐Aged Children
BACKGROUND: High rates of iron-deficiency anemia among school-age children have been a common issue in developing countries. In 2012, China rolled out a school feeding program (SFP) to address this issue. This study assesses changes in anemia rates, as well as potential factors driving these changes, both 3 and 10 years after the SFP was implemented. METHODS: Data were from two cross-sectional surveys (n = 1510) in northwestern China. T-tests wer…
Parenting style and mental health issues among primary school children in rural China
Mental health problems among young children have become a common public health issue worldwide. As the family plays a crucial role in creating a favorable environment for children’s mental health, the parenting style of caregivers is a key factor related to children’s mental health issues. This study aims to examine the associations between parenting styles of primary caregivers and the mental health of their primary school child in rural China a…
Electronic media exposure, parental language input, and child vocalizations in rural and peri-urban China
To examine the association between electronic media exposure and parental language input, Language Environment Analysis technology was used to collect data on electronic media exposure and parental language input in 158 peri-urban and rural households with children aged 18–24 months in southwestern China. The sounds children made and the sounds they heard were quantified. Multiple linear regression and quantile linear regression were used to dete…
Associations between experiencing bullying and student well-being
The connections between bullying and student well-being in rural areas are not well understood, particularly among younger, more vulnerable students. This study aims to explore the relationship between bullying experiences and the academic performance and mental health of primary and junior high school students in rural China. The sample comprised 1609 students from 30 schools (20 primary schools and 10 junior high schools) in Gansu province. A s…
Comparing primary caregiver and teacher ratings of mental health in preschool children
This study aims to compare the ratings of primary caregivers and teachers of any mental health problems of preschool children in rural China. The primary caregivers and teachers provided their ratings of mental health of 1,191 sample rural preschool children (mean age = 56.8 months; 587 girls) using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). According to the findings, primary caregivers consistently gave their children higher SDQ scores …
Changes in rural China’s caregiver outcomes, behaviours, and health services utilisation following the Covid-19 pandemic
Background: Under-resourced communities in rural China have long faced limitations in accessing and utilising caregiver and child healthcare (CCH). The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated health inequities globally, while its precise impacts on CCH remain understudied. We report differences in parental migration, maternal mental health, household and nutrition expenditures, child feeding practices, and prenatal, postnatal, and childbirth care following…
Active vs. passive urbanization
The Grass Is Grey on Both Sides”
This paper utilizes a comparative case study approach to explore the teacher job satisfaction (TJS) status of rural and urban teachers and the underlying factors that influence their TJS in central China by utilizing semi-structured interviews. Our participants include 30 rural and 14 urban public primary school teachers. We found that both rural and urban teachers had low levels of TJS. The main factors related to teachers’ job satisfaction were…
Parenting quality and early childhood development
This study demonstrates that the level of parenting quality is significantly associated with early childhood developmental outcomes. Results highlight the need for raising investments in family care to improve early childhood development in different rural subpopulations in China
Associations Between Personality Traits, Self‐Efficacy and Complementary Feeding Behavior Among Infant Caregivers in Western Rural China
The effects of psychological factors on complementary feeding behavior have been widely described, yet the mechanisms underlying the complex relationships among personality traits, self-efficacy, and complementary feeding behavior remain unclear. This cross-sectional study was conducted using a multi-stage cluster sampling process to select caregiver-child dyads in Western rural China. Personality traits, self-efficacy, and complementary feeding …
Prevalence and influencing factors of micronutrient powder adoption among children aged 6–24 months by parental and grandparental caregivers
Future efforts to improve the feeding behavior of caregivers in MNP programs both in China and abroad should improve children's preference for MNP by changing its composition and taste, and increase caregivers' feeding self-efficacy through health education. Moreover, parents should be taught to cope with time and ability barriers that may limit MNP adoption, while grandparents should be emphasized the importance and potential side effects of MNP
On the origins of gender gaps in education
Professional identity and commitment to rural teaching
Compulsory Education and Gender Inequality in China’s Structural Transformation
Maternal migration patterns and child development from infancy to early adolescence
Evaluating a mindfulness randomized controlled trial in Chinese migrant youth
Do the pathways of child development before age three matter for development at primary school? Evidence from rural China
The literature has shown that cognitive and non-cognitive development before the age of three is associated with children’s levels of development at later ages. However, the extent to which the different pathways of cognitive and non-cognitive development before age three (between 6–12 months and 22–30 months of age) are associated with developmental outcomes at primary school age remains unknown. This study aims to examine this research question…
Depression, anxiety, stress symptoms and their determinants among secondary students with vision impairment in rural Northwestern China during the Covid-19 pandemic
Objective: The measures implemented to control the spread of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) could affect children's mental and vision health. Youth particularly from minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds were more likely to be impacted by these measures. This study aimed to examine the mental health of children with vision impairment and associated factors in North-western China during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A cro…
Perceived family support and student outcomes in rural China
Parenting stress and adolescent academic burnout
Chain mediating role of self-esteem and resilience in the association between screen time and depression symptoms among Chinese children and adolescents
Impact of urbanization on cultivated land changes in China
This article aims to evaluate the impact of urbanization and different urbanization modes on cultivated land changes using an econometric model that incorporates socio-economic and policy factors in the eastern China, which experience the great urbanization in recent years. Based on land-use remote sensing data interpreted from Landsat Thematic Mapper/Enhanced Thematic Mapper digital images of Chinese Academy of Sciences and a unique set of socio…
Growth, population and industrialization, and urban land expansion of China
Migration and Incomes in Source Communities
Economic Growth and the Expansion of Urban Land in China
This paper aims to demonstrate the relationship between economic growth and the urban core area in order to help urban planners reach a better understanding of the pressures that are leading to changes in land use. Using a unique panel dataset with measures of China’s land use, it is shown that, during the late 1980s and 1990s, China’s urban land area rose significantly. Descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis are then used to identify t…
Cultivated land conversion and potential agricultural productivity in China
Land Rights in Rural China
The education of China's migrant children
Grain for Green versus Grain
Technological change
The Rise of Self-Employment in Rural China
Dropping out
Persistent Poverty in Rural China
Stagnation Without Equity
Working until You Drop
Poverty and Access to Roads in Papua New Guinea
Efficiency of Land Allocation through Tenancy Markets
Tenancy markets provide an opportunity to trade land between labor-scarce farm households and labor-abundant households. In China and other rapidly growing countries in Asia where rural to urban migration is becoming active, facilitating well-functioning tenancy markets is important to increase farm size and farmer’s income. In China, however, individual land rights are weak and in many communities land may be reallocated by village leaders to ot…
The effect of primary school mergers on academic performance of students in rural China
The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Off-farm Employment and Earnings in Rural China
Elected leaders and collective land
Parental Migration and Early Childhood Development in Rural China
Nearly one-quarter of all children under age 2 in China are left behind in the countryside as parents migrate to urban areas for work. We use a four-wave longitudinal survey following young children from 6 to 30 months of age to provide first evidence on the effects of parental migration on development, health, and nutritional outcomes in the critical first stages of life. We find that maternal migration has a negative effect on cognitive develop…
From Quantity to Quality
A key challenge in developing countries interested in providing early childhood development (ECD) programmes at scale is whether these programmes can be effectively delivered through existing public service infrastructures. We present the results of a randomised experiment evaluating the effects of a home-based parenting programme delivered by cadres in China’s Family Planning Commission (FPC)—the former enforcers of the one-child policy. We find…
Human Capital and China's Future Growth
In this paper, we consider the sources and prospects for economic growth in China with a focus on human capital. First, we provide an overview of the role that labor has played in China's economic success. We then describe China's hukou policy, which divides China's labor force into two distinct segments, one composed of rural workers and the other of urban workers. For the rural labor force, we focus on the challenges of raising human capital by…
The subsidization of farming households in China’s agriculture
Producing and Procuring Horticultural Crops with Chinese Characteristics
Irrigation, agricultural performance and poverty reduction in China
Control in a dynamic village economy
A dynamic control framework is used to model the Chinese village economy in order to explain the rural sector's unbalanced growth in the post reform period. Village leaders are assumed to maximize a multi-attribute utility function by manipulating local policy instruments subject to the structural relationships in the economy. The model's parameters are estimated econometrically using a data set from forty villages in eastern China. The empirical…
Stagnation Without Equity
Technological change
China's past, present, and future food economy
This paper synthesizes the main findings and highlights the insights of six articles that examine how China has managed its agricultural resources in the past, how agriculture is performing at present, and what challenges lie ahead as the country seeks to meet the food needs of its growing population. It provides common threads of empirical evidence on China's agricultural growth, describing its interrelationships with institutions, development p…
Poverty, population and environmental degradation in China
This paper studies the relationship among population, poverty, and the environmental factors, and the impact they have had on China's land, water, forests and pastures. It does so by examining the extent of environmental degradation and China's success in controlling its environmental problems is reviewed; by investigating how the leadership has tried to develop a legal framework and series of institutions to carry out environmental policy; and b…
The Impact of Environmental Degradation on Grain Production in China, 1975-1990
The sluggish rate of growth for China's grain production during the past decade is a major concern for agricultural planners. At the national level, the average rate of production fell to 1.8 percent per year from 1985 to 1990, after an average growth rate of 4.7 percent per year from 1978 to 1984. Supplies and application rates of critical farm inputs during 1985 to 1990 reached record levels, but had a disappointing effect on both yields and gr…
Targeted poverty investments and economic growth in China
Forest Resources Under Economic Reform in China
Leaving China's Farms
One of the striking outcomes of China's economic reforms is the emergence of inter-regional labour markets as rural workers have poured into the nation's urban and rural economies. Policy makers in China, as elsewhere in the world, have treated the inter-regional migrant labour force with ambiguity. Migration may increase efficiency, contribute to poverty reduction and make China's economy more competitive, but leaders fear the congestion, social…
Migration, Remittances, and Agricultural Productivity in China
In our paper we have used the New Economics of Labor Migration framework to trace the complex linkages that exist among migration remittances and agricultural productivity [in China]. Constraints in the operation of on-farm labor and capital or insurance markets (or institutions) provide households with a motivation to migrate and distort on-farm operations when labor leaves. In our household sample the net impact of migration and remittances on …
Leaders, managers, and the organization of township and village enterprises in China
Pollution prevention incentives and responses in chinese firms
China's Food Economy to the Twenty-first Century
Elections and Power
While the election process is important, the significance of the Organic Law on Villagers' Committees rests with what happens after a village election. The existence of the law reveals little about the actual distribution of power and decision-making in China's villages. Even free and fair elections cannot be assumed to bring meaningful change to the contours of rural power where there is a dual authority structure – Party and government – in eve…
Bureaucrat to Entrepreneur
The pursuit of efficiency, on the one hand, and the desire for low-priced, abundant food for urban consumers on the other, has led China's reformers to undertake a series of erratic policy swings in the course of managing the nation's grain economy. Although some analysts have recognized the deleterious effects of such inconsistent policies on long-run economic development, political and economic considerations have until recently prevented polic…
The Rise of Rural-to-Rural Labor Markets in China
The continued transfer of agricultural labor into the industrial sector is crucial to China's transformation into an industrial economy. We argue in this paper that rural industry offers an alternative to urban industry for employing agricultural labor from areas without off-farm employment opportunities. Characteristics of rural industry differ from their urban counterparts. These characteristics may serve to shape the growth in employment for i…
The Farmer's Voice in Priority Setting
Hazards of Expropriation
We use household data from northeast China to examine the link between investment and land tenure insecurity induced by China's system of village-level land reallocation. We quantify expropriation risk using a hazard analysis of individual plot tenures and incorporate the predicted “hazards of expropriation” into an empirical analysis of plot-level investment. Our focus is on organic fertilizer use, which has long-lasting benefits for soil qualit…
How Elastic is Calorie Demand? Parametric, Nonparametric, and Semiparametric Results for Urban Papua New Guinea
This paper seeks further evidence on the elasticity of calorie demand with respect to household resources. The case presented is for urban areas of Papua New Guinea, where just over one-half of the population appear to obtain less than the recommended amount of dietary energy. The relationship between per capita calorie consumption and per capita expenditure in urban areas of Papua New Guinea is not consistent with the view that income changes ha…
Land Rights in Rural China
Continuity and Change in China's Rural Periodic Markets
Can we find traditional periodic markets in the milieu of market activity that abounds in contemporary China today? As reform is transforming the rural economy, is periodic markets activity being intensified or undermined? What factors account for the evolution of China's rural markets? The goal of this paper is to provide answers to some of these questions. In one sense, the study seeks to add to Skinner's seminal work by analyzing a set of prim…
Poverty and Access to Roads in Papua New Guinea
Migration and Incomes in Source Communities
Local Government Behavior and Property Right Formation in Rural China
Secure land tenure is important to the development process, but China's rural reforms have so far failed to provide farm households with this security. We examine the political economy of land tenure and find that local governments sacrifice tenure security in the interests of efficiency and equity. Local rent seeking also plays an important role, and is a likely source of the under-development of land rental markets. Our results further suggest …
The Emergence of Supermarkets with Chinese Characteristics
The supermarket revolution is spreading faster in China than anywhere else in the world. Supermarket sales are growing by 30–40% per year, 2–3 times faster than in other developing regions. This development has been driven by factors shared by other developing countries as well as by China‐specific policies. It presents opportunities for Chinese agricultural producers to diversify into activities with higher income prospects, and for procurement …
China (159 works) · Economics (97 works) · Geography (96 works) · Psychology (93 works) · Medicine (88 works) · Political science (88 works) · Economic growth (63 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (43 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (40 works) · Developmental psychology (40 works)