Prof. Dr. Songqing Jin joined the faculty at the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, in 2007. His research interests are in the broad areas of microeconomics and international agricultural development. The main part of his research has been focused on rural land tenure and rural land market issues in developing countries. He completed his M.S. in agriculture at Zhejiang University and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis, USA, in 2004. His past and current research also concerns other development issues such as rural non-farm development, rural labor migration, rural governance, and the economics of gender inequality. He has conducted fieldwork and other research activities in East Asia, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa over the past several years. Before coming to MSU, he was a research economist at the World Bank.
Prof. Dr. Scott Rozelle is the co-director of the Rural Education Action Program in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He received his BS from the
University of California, Berkeley, and his MS and PhD from Cornell University.
Previously, Prof. Rozelle was a professor at the University of California,
Davis, and an assistant professor at Stanford’s Food Research Institute and
department of economics. He is currently a member of the American Economics Association, the International Association for
Agricultural Economists, and the Association for Asian Studies. He also
serves on the editorial boards of Economic Development and Cultural Change,
Agricultural Economics, the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource
Economics, and the China Economic Review. His research is concerned with
agricultural policy, including the supply, demand, and trade in agricultural
projects; the emergence and evolution of markets and other economic
institutions in the transition process and their implications for equity and
efficiency; and the economics of poverty and inequality, with an emphasis on
rural education, health, and nutrition. Prof. Rozelle has received numerous
honors and awards, including the Friendship Award in 2008, the highest award
given to a non-Chinese by the Premier, and the National Science and Technology
Collaboration Award in 2009 for scientific achievement in collaborative
research.
