Dr. LINGLING HOU

Current Position: Tenured Associate Professor, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University

Study area: Agricultural Economics

Contact

Address: Wangkezhen Building 412, No. 5 Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100871 China

Tel: +86-10-6276-0780

Email: llhou.ccap@pku.edu.cn

Short Bio 

Dr. Lingling Hou is Tenured Associate Professor at China Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences in Peking University. Her study area is agricultural, resource and environmental economics, especially on reducing carbon emissions in agriculture, monetary evaluation of agroecosystem services, grassland protection, and improving living environment in rural area. By June 2023, she has published 32 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, including the top journals such as Nature Communications, Agricultural Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Energy Economics, Ecological Economics. Her peer-reviewed journal articles have over 700 citations and her h-index on Google Scholar is 15. She also published 25 peer-reviewed journal articles in Chinese, including those on Management World (管理世界), Journal of Agrotechnical Economics (农业技术经济), and China Rural Survey (中国农村观察). She has played an important role in advising China’s agricultural green development policies. Based on her research, she has submitted 8 policy briefs since 2016 to the State Council. Currently, she is PI/Co-PI of 5 projects on economic value of ecosystem services and agricultural non-point pollutions funded by Chinese government, such as National Foundation of Natural Science. 

Areas of Specialization 

Resource and environmental economics in agriculture, such as environmental policies in agriculture; economic value of ecosystem services; grassland conservation; payment for ecosystem services; field experiments and survey 

Education

   2009-2012  Ph.D.  Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2009-2012

       Colorado State University, USA

2007-2009  M.S. Agricultural Economics, 2007-2009

       China Agricultural University, China

2003-2007 B.S. Agricultural Economics, 2003-2007

       China Agricultural University, China  

Professional Experience

2023-pres.   Tenured Associate Professor, Peking University

2016-2022.  Assistant Professor, Peking University

2012-2015  Assistant Professor, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP),

       Chinese Academy of Sciences  

Selected Publications 

1. Hou, Lingling*, Pengfei Liu, Xiaohui Tian. 2022. Grassland tenure reform and grassland quality in China. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

2.Hou, Lingling*, Fang Xia, Qihui Chen*, Jikun Huang, Yong He*, Nathan Rose, Scott Rozelle. 2021. Grassland ecological compensation policy in China improves grassland quality and increases herders’ income. Nature Communications 12:4683.

3. Li, Dongqing, Lingling Hou*, Alec Zuo. 2021. Informal institutions and grassland protection: empirical evidence from pastoral regions in China. Ecological Economics 188(6):107110. [SCI/SSCI, IF=6.536]

4. Liu, Pengfei, Lingling Hou*, Dongqing Li, Shi Min. Yueying Mu. 2021. Determinants of livestock insurance demand: experimental evidence from Chinese herders. Journal of Agricultural Economics 72(2):430-451.

5. Hou, Lingling, Pengfei Liu, Jikun Huang*, Xiangzheng Deng. 2020. The influence of risk preferences, knowledge, land consolidation, and landscape diversification on pesticide use. Agricultural Economics 51(5):759-776.

6. Xia, Fang, Lingling Hou*, Songqing Jin, Dongqing Li. 2020. Land size and productivity in the livestock sector: evidence from pastoral areas in China. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 64(3):867-888.

7. Zuo, Alec, Lingling Hou*, Zeying Huang. 2020. How does farmers’ current usage of crop straws influence the willingness-to-accept price to sell? Energy Economics 86:104639.

8. Kuhn, Lena, Tomas Balezentis, Lingling Hou*, Dan Wang. 2020. Technical and environmental efficiency of livestock farms in China: a slacks-based DEA approach. China Economic Review 62:101213.

9. Hou, Lingling, Xiaoguang Chen, Lena Kuhn, Jikun Huang*. 2019. The effectiveness of regulation and technologies on sustainable use of crop residues in Northeast China. Energy Economics 81:519-527.

10. Hu, Yuanning, Jikun Huang*, Lingling Hou. 2019. Impacts of the Grassland Ecological Compensation Policy on livestock husbandry in China: an empirical study in Inner Mongolia. Ecological Economics 161:248-256.