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Wanglin Ma is affiliated with Lincoln University in New Zealand and specializes in research within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on several key subfields including General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science, Sociology and Political Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research contributions cover a range of topics predominantly centered on agricultural and rural economic development. These topics include:

  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Land Rights and Reforms
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Wanglin Ma has published numerous articles in academic journals. Some of their recent papers include:

  • "The adoption and impact of E-commerce in rural China: Application of an endogenous switching regression model" (2021) published in Journal of Rural Studies
  • "Impact of Internet use on economic well-being of rural households: Evidence from China" (2020) published in Review of Development Economics
  • "ICT adoption and income diversification among rural households in China" (2020) published in Applied Economics
  • "Internet Use, Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Rural Incomes: Evidence from China" (2020) published in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  • "Do farmers gain internet dividends from E-commerce adoption? Evidence from China" (2021) published in Food Policy

Their work appears frequently in notable venues such as Applied Economics, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Economic Analysis and Policy, Review of Development Economics, and Agribusiness.

Wanglin Ma has collaborated with a number of coauthors on academic publications, most frequently with Hongyun Zheng, Puneet Vatsa, Junpeng Li, Xiaoshi Zhou, and Dil Bahadur Rahut.

Best Publications

  • Does cooperative membership improve household welfare? Evidence from apple farmers in China

    Wanglin Ma;Awudu Abdulai

  • Agricultural Cooperatives and Investment in Organic Soil Amendments and Chemical Fertilizer in China

    Wanglin Ma;Awudu Abdulai;Renan Goetz

  • The adoption and impact of E-commerce in rural China: Application of an endogenous switching regression model

    Min Liu;Shi Min;Wanglin Ma;Tianjun Liu

  • Agricultural cooperative membership and technical efficiency of apple farmers in China: An analysis accounting for selectivity bias

    Wanglin Ma;Alan Renwick;Peng Yuan;Nazmun Ratna

  • Impact of Internet use on economic well‐being of rural households: Evidence from China

    Wanglin Ma;Peng Nie;Pei Zhang;Alan Renwick

  • The effect of cooperative membership on agricultural technology adoption in Sichuan, China

    Shemei Zhang;Zhanli Sun;Wanglin Ma;Vladislav Valentinov

  • ICT adoption and income diversification among rural households in China

    Chenxin Leng;Wanglin Ma;Jianjun Tang;Zhongkun Zhu

  • Internet use, sustainable agricultural practices and rural incomes: Evidence from China

    Wanglin Ma;Xiaobing Wang

  • Impact of off-farm income on household energy expenditures in China: Implications for rural energy transition

    Wanglin Ma;Xiaoshi Zhou;Alan Renwick

  • Do Farmers Gain Internet Dividends from E-commerce Adoption? Evidence from China

    Xiaokang Li;Hongdong Guo;Songqing Jin;Wanglin Ma

  • IPM adoption, cooperative membership and farm economic performance

    Wanglin Ma;Awudu Abdulai

  • Smartphone Use and Income Growth in Rural China: Empirical Results and Policy Implications

    Wanglin Ma;R. Quentin Grafton;Alan Renwick

  • The economic impacts of agricultural cooperatives on smallholder farmers in rural China

    Wanglin Ma;Awudu Abdulai

  • The relationship between smartphone use and subjective well-being in rural China

    Peng Nie;Peng Nie;Wanglin Ma;Alfonso Sousa-Poza;Alfonso Sousa-Poza

  • Does internet use improve technical efficiency of banana production in China? Evidence from a selectivity-corrected analysis

    Hongyun Zheng;Wanglin Ma;Fang Wang;Gucheng Li

  • Heterogeneous impacts of information technology adoption on pesticide and fertiliser expenditures: Evidence from wheat farmers in China*

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  • Off-farm work, smartphone use and household income: Evidence from rural China

    Wanglin Ma;Alan Renwick;Peng Nie;Jianjun Tang

  • The effect of internet usage on perceptions of social fairness: Evidence from rural China

    Zhongkun Zhu;Wanglin Ma;Alfonso Sousa-Poza;Chenxin Leng

  • The effects of off-farm work on fertilizer and pesticide expenditures in China

    Wanglin Ma;Awudu Abdulai;Chunbo Ma

  • The impact of access to irrigation on rural incomes and diversification: evidence from China

    Junpeng Li;Wanglin Ma;Alan Renwick;Hongyun Zheng

  • The role of agricultural cooperatives in serving as a marketing channel: Evidence from low-income regions of Sichuan province in China

    Yuying Liu;Wanglin Ma;Alan Renwick;Xinhong Fu

  • Farm machinery use, off-farm employment and farm performance in China

    Wanglin Ma;Alan Renwick;R. Quentin Grafton

Frequent Co-Authors

Awudu Abdulai
Awudu Abdulai Kiel University
R. Quentin Grafton
R. Quentin Grafton Australian National University
Songqing Jin
Songqing Jin Michigan State University
Vladislav Valentinov
Vladislav Valentinov Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Ashok K. Mishra
Ashok K. Mishra Arizona State University

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