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Climate Impacts on Chinese Corn Yields: A Fractional Polynomial Regression Model

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  • Baojing Sun
  • G. Cornelis van Kooten

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In this study, we examine the effect of climate on corn yields in northern China using data from ten districts in Inner Mongolia and two in Shaanxi province. A regression model with a flexible functional form is specified, with explanatory variables that include seasonal growing degree days, precipitation, technical change and dummy variables to account for regional fixed effects. Results indicate that a fractional polynomial model in growing degree days explains variability in corn yields better than a linear or quadratic model. Among the tested models, the other factors show steady effects on corn yields. Growing degree days, precipitation in July, August and September, and technical change are important determinants of corn yields.

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  • Baojing Sun & G. Cornelis van Kooten, 2012. "Climate Impacts on Chinese Corn Yields: A Fractional Polynomial Regression Model," Working Papers 2012-02, University of Victoria, Department of Economics, Resource Economics and Policy Analysis Research Group.
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    Keywords

    Corn yields; fractional polynomial regression;

    JEL classification:

    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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