Research Institution for Global Value Chains
University of International Business and Economics
No. 10 Huixin Dongjie, Chaoyang District
Beijing, China, 100029
xiafang@uibe.edu.cn
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
Michigan State University, East Lansing MI May 2013
M.A., Economics
Nankai University, Tianjin China July 2008
B.A., Philosophy and Economics
Peking University, Beijing China July 2006
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, Research Institute for Global Value Chains, University of International
Business and Economics, April 2019-present.
Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Global Value Chains, University of International
Business and Economics, September 2016-March 2019.
Assistant Professor, China Center for Human Capital and Labor Market Research, Central
University of Finance and Economics, September 2013-August 2016.
Consultant, Development Research Group, World Bank, June 2010-August 2013.
BOOK CHAPTER
Deininger, Klaus, Sara Savastano and Fang Xia (2018) Smallholders’ Land Access in Sub-
Saharan Africa: A New Landscape? in Christiaensen, Luc and Lionel Demery
(eds.), Agriculture in Africa: Telling Myths from Facts. Directions in
Development. Washington, DC: World Bank.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Deininger, Klaus, Songqing Jin, Shouying Liu and Fang Xia (2019) “ Property Rights Reform to
Support China’s Rural-Urban Integration: Household-Level Evidence from the Chengdu
Experiment,” Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, forthcoming.
Deininger, Klaus, Songqing Jin, Shouying Liu, Ting Shao and Fang Xia (2019) “Property Rights
Reform to Support China’s Rural-Urban Integration: Village-Level Evidence from the
Chengdu Experiment,” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
Xia, Fang and Klaus Deininger (2019) “Spillover Effects of Tobacco Farms on the Labor Supply,
Education, and Health of Children: Evidence from Malawi,” American Journal of
Agricultural Economics, 101(4): 1181-1202.
Deininger, Klaus, Songqing Jin, Hari Nagarajan and Fang Xia (2019) “Inheritance Law Reform,
Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation: Second-Generation Effects from
India,” Journal of Development Studies, 55(12): 2549-2571.
Deininger, Klaus, Fang Xia and Stein Holden (2019) “Gendered Incidence and Impacts of
Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi’s Customary Tenure
System,” Journal of Development Studies, 55(4): 597-619.
Deininger, Klaus and Fang Xia (2018) “Assessing the Long-Term Performance of Large-Scale
Land Transfers: Challenges and Opportunities in Malawi’s Estate Sector,” World
Development, 104: 281-296.
Xia, Fang and Feng Song (2017) “The Uneven Development of Wind Power in China:
Determinants and the Role of Supporting Policies,” Energy Economics, 67: 278-286.
Xia, Fang and Feng Song (2017) “Evaluating the Economic Impacts of Wind Power
Development on Local Economies in China,” Energy Policy, 110: 263-270.
Deininger, Klaus, Sara Savastano and Fang Xia (2017) “Smallholders’ Land Access in Sub-
Saharan Africa: A New Landscape?” Food Policy, 67: 78-92.
Deininger, Klaus and Fang Xia (2016) “Quantifying Spillover Effects from Large Land-based
Investment: The Case of Mozambique,” World Development, 87: 227-241.
Deininger, Klaus, Songqing Jin, Hari Nagarajan and Fang Xia (2015) “Does Female Reservation
Affect Long-Term Political Outcomes? Evidence from Rural India,” Journal of
Development Studies, 51(1): 32-49.
Deininger, Klaus, Songqing Jin, Fang Xia and Jikun Huang (2014) “Moving off the Farm: Land
Institutions to Facilitate Structural Transformation and Agricultural Productivity Growth
in China,” World Development, 59: 505-520.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Referee for: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Australian Journal of Agricultural
and Resource Economics, Feminist Economics, Land Use Policy, Review of
Development Economics, World Development.
