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min.liu@pku.edu.cn; minliuwur@126.com

Gender: female

Nationality: China

Birth date: April-1988

 

Education:

•   Wageningen University, the Netherlands

PhD, Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group (October, 2012-January, 2017)

•   Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, China

MA, Agricultural Economics and Management (September, 2010-July, 2012)

•  Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, China

BA, Tourism Management (September, 2006-July, 2010)

 

Research interests:

•   Information communication technology (e-commerce, Taobao Village)

•   Social-ecological systems

•   Policy evaluation

•   Land tenure,   land use and investment

•   Land degradation

•   Livestock production

•   Rural household livelihoods

•   Rural transformation

 

Research skills:

•   Stata, GAMS, GIS

 

Major courses:

•   Econometrics

•   Welfare economics

•   Institutional economics

•   Spatial economics

•   Environmental economics

 

Working experience:

•  Consultant in Development Research Group of the World Bank, Washington D.C., the United States, October 2016-January, 2017. Working on Land Tenure Insecurity and Land Investment of Ghana with Klaus Deininger.

 

•  Teaching assistant in Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands, February 2017-March, 2017. Teaching General   Equilibrium model, Partial Equilibrium model, Input Output model and   Neo-classical growth model with Dr. Xueqin Zhu, Dr. Koos Gardebroek and Prof.   Ekko van Ierland.

 

•  Research assistant, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, July 2015-October 2015. Working on Land tenure reform of China's grasslands with Prof. Jikun Huang.

 

Related international institutes:

•  Wageningen University, the Netherlands

•  World Bank, the United States

•  Peking University, China

• Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

 

Grants:

• Sponsorship for overseas PhD training sponsored by the Chinese Scholarship Council, China,  2012-2016

• Junior Researcher Grant from Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS), Wageningen University, the Netherlands, 2016

• Outstanding paper award, 2016 Bolivian Conference on Development Economics, Bolivia, 2016

 

Publications:

• Min Liu, Wim Heijman, Xueqin Zhu, Liesbeth Dries, Jikun Huang. (2016).Individual and Social Optima of Rural Land Allocation by Stakeholders: A Case Study on Eco-fragile Areas of Northern China.   The Rangeland Journal, impact factor: 1.096. doi: 10.1071/rj15069.

• Min Liu, Jikun Huang, Liesbeth Dries, Wim Heijman, Xueqin Zhu, Yuanning Hu, Haibin Chen. (2017).The impact of Ecological Construction Programs on grassland conservation in the pastoral areas of China. Land Degradation and Development, impact factor: 9.787.

• Min Liu, Jikun Huang, Liesbeth Dries, Wim Heijman, Xueqin Zhu. (2017).What is the impact of land tenure reform on livestock production in pastoral areas? An empirical study conducted in Inner Mongolia, China. China Economic Review   (Forthcoming), impact factor: 1.366.

• Min Liu, Liesbeth Dries, Wim Heijman, Jikun Huang, Xueqin Zhu, Xiangzheng Deng. Tragedy of the commons or tragedy of privatization? The impact of land tenure reform on grassland condition in Inner Mongolia, China. Land Degradation and Development. Under the 2nd round review.

• Min Liu, China's grassland policies and the Inner Mongolia grassland system. Monograph (Ph.D dissertation).

• Min Liu, Shunbo Yao. Policy evaluation on the state-owned forest farms transforming into public institutes---based on the target of solving wage crisis of the local employees [J]. Issues in Forestry Economy, 2012, 32(01):60-65.   DOI:10.16832/j.cnki.1005-9709.2012.01.012.

• Min Liu. The optimal allocation of human resource under the reform of state-owned forest farms transforming into public institutes [D]. Northwest A&F University, 2012.