Tang Jianjun

                Title: Professor, Doctoral Supervisor

                Office: Mingde Main Building, Room 0504A

             Tel:                 Email: j.tang@ruc.edu.cn

                                

Research Interests: 

Agricultural economics; Resource and environmental economics; Health economics

Biography:

Tang Jianjun is a professor at the School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China. He is a "Changjiang Scholar" Youth Scholar appointed by the Ministry of Education and a Wu Yuzhang Youth Scholar at Renmin University of China. He also serves as the Secretary-General of the Youth Scholar Committee of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Technology Economics.

Tang Jianjun graduated from the Department of Economic Geography at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, in 2014, earning a Ph.D. in Resource and Environmental Economics under the supervision of Professor Henk Folmer, the founder and first president of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE). His doctoral dissertation received the Cum Laude distinction, awarded to only the top 5% of outstanding doctoral graduates, and was nominated for the Best Dissertation Award at the University of Groningen in 2014, as well as the Best Dissertation Award of the Regional Science Association International in 2015.

Tang Jianjun's research focuses on agricultural economics, health economics, and resource and environmental policy. He has led two projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. To date, he has published over 40 academic papers in Chinese and English academic journals. As the first or corresponding author, his work has appeared in renowned journals such as China Rural Economy (five papers), China Rural Survey, Food Policy, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Economics, Ecological Economics, Journal of Environmental Management, Habitat International, Cities, Journal of Rural Studies, Land Use Policy, Environmental Science & Policy, and Science of the Total Environment. In the field of health economics, his research has been published in journals such as Lancet Global Health and Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific.

His published papers have been cited over 1600 times, with an H-index of 24. He has long served as a reviewer for more than 30 SCI/SSCI journals and has been invited to deliver keynote speeches at international academic conferences in countries such as the United States, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Austria, and Greece.

Publications：

1. Feng, X., Qiu, H., Liu, M., Tang, J.* (2024) Innovation of grassland ecological governance systems: Synergy between government regulation and grassroots governance. Ecological Economics 217, 108087.

   
   

2. Tang, J., Chen, D., Qiu, H.* (2023) Does poverty alleviation resettlement improve resettlees’ subjective social status? Longitudinal evidence from China. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 103, 107285

   
   

3. Tang J*, Yang Z, Kee F and Congdon N (2023) Time and risk preferences and the perceived effectiveness of incentives to comply with diabetic retinopathy screening among older adults with type 2 diabetes. Frontiers in Psychology 14: 1101909.

   
   

4. Smyth, L.J., Cruise, S.M., Tang, J.*, Young, I., McGuinness, B., Kee, F., McKnight, A.J. (2023) Differential methylation in CD44 and SEC23A is associated with time preference in older individuals. Economics & Human Biology 49: 101233.

   
   

5. Tang, J., Liu, A., Qiu, H. (2023) Early warning, adaptation to extreme weather, and attenuation of economic losses: Empirical evidence from pastoral China. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 86: 103563.

   
   

6. Liu, H., Li, R., Zhang, Y., Zhang, K., Yusufu, M., Liu, Y., Mou, D., Chen, X., Tian, J., Li, H., Fan, S., Tang, J., Wang, N. (2023) Economic evaluation of combined population-based screening for multiple blindness-causing eye diseases in China: a cost-effectiveness analysis. Lancet Global Health 11(3): e456-465.

   
   

7. Tang, J., Xin, M., Wang, X. (2022) Herdsmen's willingness to accept compensation for grazing ban compliance: Empirical evidence from pastoral China, Journal of Cleaner Production 361, 132102.

   
   

8. Qiu, H., Su, L., Tang, J.*(2022) Effects of environmental regulation on rural livelihood diversification: Evidence from pastoral China. Journal of Rural Studies 95, 26-39.

   
   

9. Tang, J., Xu, Y., Qiu, H.* (2022) Integration of migrants in poverty alleviation resettlement to urban China. Cities 120, 103501.

   
   

10. Feng, X., Tang, J., Qiu, H.* (2022) The effect of grassland transfer on herders’ livestock production and grazing intensity in Inner Mongolia and Gansu, China. China Agricultural Economic Review 14(2), 242 - 258.

    
    

11. Li.,R., Yang, Z., Zhang, Y., Bai, W., Du, Y., Sun, R., Tang, J.*, Wang, N.*, Liu, H.* (2022) Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of traditional and telemedicine combined population-based age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy screening in rural and urban China. Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific 23, 100435.

    
    

12. Tang, J., Xu, Y., Ma, W., Gao, S.* (2021) Does participation in poverty alleviation programmes increase subjective well-being? Results from a survey of rural residents in Shanxi, China. Habitat International 118 (12), 102455.

    
    

13. Feng, X., Qiu, H., Pan, J., Tang, J. * (2021) The impact of climate change on livestock production in pastoral areas of China. Science of the Total Environment 770, 144838.

    
    

14. Su, L., Tang, J., Qiu, H. (2021) Intended and unintended environmental consequences of grassland rental in pastoral China. Journal of Environmental Management 285, 112126.

    
    

15. Qiu, H., Su, L., Feng, X., Tang, J.* 2020. Role of monitoring in environmental regulation: An empirical analysis of grazing restrictions in pastoral China. Environmental Science and Policy 114, 295-304.

    
    

16. Murray, J.M., French, D.P., Kee, F., Gough, A., Tang, J., Hunter, R.F. (2020) Mechanisms of physical activity behavior change in an incentive-based intervention: Mediation analysis. Health Psychology 39(4), 281–297.

    
    

17. Tang, J., Ren, H., Folmer, H. (2020) Subjective wellbeing as valuation system of environmental quality: an environmental social sciences approach. edited by Katrin, R., Maddison, D., Welsch, H. Handbook on wellbeing, happiness and the environment. chapter 5, 85-103.

    
    

18. Leng, C., Ma, W., Tang, J., Zhu, Z. (2020) ICT adoption and income diversification among rural households in China. Applied Economics 52(33), 3614-3628.

    
    

19. Wang, J., Yang, C., Ma, W., Tang, J.* (2020) Risk preference, trust, and willingness-to-accept subsidies for pro-environmental production: An investigation of hog farmers in China. Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 22, 405-431.

    
    

20. Power, J.M., Tang, J. *, Kenny, R.A., Lawlor, B.A., Kee, F. (2020) Mediating the relationship between loneliness and cognitive function: the role of depressive and anxiety symptoms. Aging & Mental Health 24(7): 1071-1078.

    
    

21. Liu, M., Dries, L., Huang, J., Min, S., Tang, J. * (2019) The impacts of the eco-environmental policy on grassland degradation and livestock production in Inner Mongolia, China: An empirical analysis based on the simultaneous equation model. Land Use Policy 88: 104167.

    
    

22. Tang, J., Liang, Y. *, O'Neill, C., Kee, F., Jiang, J., Congdon, N. (2019) Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of population-based glaucoma screening in China: a decision-analytic Markov model. Lancet Global Health 7(7), 968-978.

    
    

23. Murray, J.M., French, D.P., Patterson, C.C., Kee, F., Gough, A., Tang, J., Hunter, R.F. (2019) Predicting Outcomes from Engagement with Specific Components of an Internet-Based Physical Activity Intervention with Financial Incentives: Process Analysis of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research 21(4): e11394.

    
    

24. Hunter, R.F., Gough, A., Murray, J.M., Tang, J. et al. (2019). A loyalty scheme to encourage physical activity in office workers: a cluster RCT. Public Health Research, No. 7.15.

    
    

25. Tang, J. *, Chrzanowski-Smith, O.J., Hutchinson, G., Kee, F., Hunter, R.F. (2019) Relationship between monetary delay discounting and obesity: a systematic review and meta-regression. International Journal of Obesity 43, 1135-1146.

    
    

26. Ma, W., Renwick, A., Nie, P., Tang, J., Zhang, P. (2018) Off-farm work, smartphone use and household income: Evidence from rural China. China Economic Review 52, 80-94.

    
    

27. Hunter, R.F., Murray, J.M., Gough, A., Tang, J., Patterson, C.C., French, D.P., McIntosh, E., Xin, Y., Kee, F. (2018) Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a loyalty scheme for physical activity behaviour change maintenance: results from a cluster randomised controlled trial. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 15: 127.

    
    

28. Wang, J., Chu., M., Yang, C., Lam, H., Tang, J. (2018) Determinants of pesticide application: An empirical analysis with theory of planned behaviour. China Agricultural Economic Review 10(4), 608-625.

    
    

29. Reddy, P.A., Congdon, N., et al., Tang, J., et al. (2018) Effect of Providing Near Glasses on Productivity Among Presbyopic Rural Indian Tea Workers: the PROSPER (PROductivity Study of Presbyopia Elimination in Rural-dwellers) Randomised Controlled Trial. Lancet Global Health. 6(9): e1019-e1027.

    
    

30. Hunter, R.F.#, Tang, J.#, Hutchinson, G., Chilton, S., Holmes, D., Kee F. (2018) Association between time preference, present-bias and physical activity: implications for designing behavior change interventions. BMC Public Health 18: 1388. (#共同第一作者)

    
    

31. McHugh, P.J., Tang, J., Lawlor, B., Kenny, R.A., Kee, F. (2018). Mediators of the relationship between social activities and cognitive function among older Irish adults: results from the Irish longitudinal study on ageing. Aging & Mental Health 22(1), 129-134.

    
    

32. Tang, J. *, Folmer, H., Xue, J. (2016) Adoption of irrigation water-saving techniques in the Guanzhong Plain, China. Agricultural Economics 47(4): 445–455.

    
    

33. Tang, J. *, Folmer, H. (2016) Latent versus observed variables: Analysis of irrigation water efficiency using SEM and SUR. Journal of Agricultural Economics 67(1): 173–185.

    
    

34. Jiang, L., Folmer, H., Ji, M., Tang, J. (2016) Energy efficiency in the Chinese provinces: A fixed effects stochastic frontier-spatial Durbin error panel analysis. Annals of Regional Science 58(2): 301–319.

    
    

35. Hunter R.F., Brennan S.F., Tang J., et al. (2016). Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a physical activity loyalty scheme for behaviour change maintenance: a cluster randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health 16: 618.

    
    

36. Zhang, Y., van Dijk, T., Tang, J., van den Berg, A.E. (2015) Green space attachment and health: A comparative study in two urban neighborhoods. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 12(11): 14342–14363.

    
    

37. Tang, J. *, Folmer, H., Xue, J. (2015) Technical and allocative efficiency of irrigation water use in the Guanzhong Plain, China. Food Policy 50: 43–52.

    
    

38. Tang, J. *, Folmer, H., van der Vlist, A.J., Xue, J. (2014) The impacts of management reform on irrigation water use efficiency in the Guanzhong plain, China. Papers in Regional Science 93(2): 455–475.

    
    

39. Tang, J. *, Folmer, H., Xue, J. (2013) Estimation of awareness and perception of water scarcity among farmers in the Guanzhong Plain, China, by means of a structural equation model. Journal of Environmental Management 126: 55–62.

    
    

40. 高帅，程炜，唐建军*（2024）风险冲击视角下革命老区农户生计韧性研究 ——以太行革命老区为例，中国农村经济，3，107-125.

    
    

41. 唐建军，龚教伟，宋清华（2022）数字普惠金融与农业全要素生产率——基于要素流动与技术扩散的视角，中国农村经济，7，81-102.

    
    

42. 苏柳方，仇焕广，唐建军*（2021）草场流转的转入地悲剧——来自876个草场地块的微观证据，中国农村经济，3，68-85.

    
    

43. 冯晓龙，苏柳方，唐建军*（2021）草场流转备案、流转范围规制与牧户超载过牧行为，农业技术经济，12，4-16.

    
    

44. 王建华，布玉婷，杨晨晨，唐建军（2021）养殖户风险偏好度量的潜在偏误——基于实验经济学和量表法的对比研究，中国软科学，4，150-162.

    
    

45. 高帅，丛建辉，唐建军*（2020）特困地区可持续减贫：理论逻辑与实践路径，上海财经大学学报，22（6），61-75.

    
    

46. 高帅，史婵，唐建军*（2020）基于增能赋权视角的农户贫困脆弱性缓解研究——以太行山连片特困地区为例，中国农村观察，1，61-75.

    
    

47. 仇焕广，苏柳方，张祎彤，唐建军*（2020）风险偏好、风险感知与农户保护性耕作技术采纳，中国农村经济，7，59-79.

    
    

48. 王建华，杨晨晨，唐建军*（2019）养殖户损失厌恶与病死猪处理行为——基于404家养殖户的现实考察，中国农村经济，4，130-144