Man Li

Publications | Book Chapters

• Wu, J., Oueslati, W., Li, M., (2019). Policy Options for Efficient Agricultural Land Management: Global Challenges for Future Food and Agricultural Policies . World Scientific Publishing
• Rosegrant, M., Li, M., Xu, W., (2017). Beyond Water Markets: Second-best Water Allocation Policy?: Agriculture and Rural Development in a Globalizing World: Challenges and Opportunities. Routledge

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

• Li, M., (2025). Export Price Fluctuations and Gender-specific Labor Allocation: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh. The World Bank Economic Review (In press)
• Li, M., Khan, A.A, (2025). Incentivizing water conservation in agriculture: A case study of the Great Salt Lake watersheds. Environmental Research Letters, 20, 014063.
• Siu, W., Li, M., (2025). A Comprehensive Parcel-Level Dataset on Farmland Assessment: Addressing Grid-Cell Data Bias Estimation. Data, 1:10
• Li, M., Khan, A.A, (2024). How Agricultural Water Conservation Can Save the Great Salt Lake. Choices, 39:4
• Li, M., Khan, A.A, (2024). A User-Friendly Method for Estimating Discrete Choice Land-Use Model in a Panel Data Setting. MethodsX, 13:102841
• Li, M., Siu, W., Caplan, A.J, (2024). Utah's Greenbelt Program Has Caused Unintended Effects on Farmland Protection. Choices, 39:3
• Siu, W., Li, M., Caplan, A.J, (2023). Unintended effects of preferential tax assessment on farmland protection: Evidence from Utah's Farmland Assessment Act. Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 2:4, 737-752.
• Li, M., (2023). Adaptation to Expected and Unexpected Weather Fluctuations: Evidence from Bangladeshi Smallholder Farmers. World Development, 161:106066
• Li, M., Guo, Z., Zhang, W., (2022). A Novel Seasonal-spatial Integrated Model for Improving the Economic-environmental Performance of Crop Production. MethodsX, 9:101906
• Li, M., Zhang, W., Guo, Z., Bhandary, P., (2022). Deforestation and Smallholder Income: Evidence from Remittances to Nepal. Land Economics, 98:2, 376-398.
• Li, M., Guo, Z., Zhang, W., (2021). Balancing Food Security and Environmental Sustainability by Optimizing Seasonal-Spatial Crop Production in Bangladesh. Environmental Research Letters, 16, 074046.
• Li, M., (2019). The Effect of Land Use Regulations on Farmland Protection and Nonagricultural Land Conversions in China. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 63, 643‒67.
• Li, M., Xu, W., Zhu, T., (2019). Agricultural Water Allocation under Uncertainty: Redistribution of Water Shortage Risk. American Journal of Agricultural Economics , 101:1, 134-53.
• Xu, W., Li, M., Bell, A., (2019). Water Security and Irrigation Investment: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Pakistan. Applied Economics, 51:7, 711‒21.
• Zhou, S., Zhou, W., Lin, G., Chen, J., Jiang, T., Li, M., (2017). Adapting to Climate Change: Scenario Analysis of Grain Production in China. China Agricultural Economic Review, 9:4, 643‒59.
• Li, M., Xu, W., Rosegrant, M., (2017). Irrigation, Risk Aversion, and Water Rights Priority under Water Supply Uncertainty. Water Resources Research , 53:9, 7885‒7903.
• Li, M., Wu, J., Deng, X., (2016). Land Use Change and Soil Carbon Sequestration in China: Where Does It Pays to Conserve?. Regional Environmental Change, 16:8, 2429–41.
• De Pinto, A., Li, M., Haruna, A., Hyman, G., Martinez, M., Creamer, B., Kwon, H., Garcia, J., Tapasco, J., Martinez, J., (2016). Low Emission Development Strategies in Agriculture. An Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU) Perspective. World Development, 87, 180–203.
• Xu, W., Li, M., (2016). Water Supply and Water Allocation Strategy in the Arid U.S. West: Evidence from the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer. Regional Environmental Change , 16:3, 893–906.
• Li, M., De Pinto, A., Ulimwengu, J., You, L., Robertson, R., (2015). Impacts of Road Expansion on Deforestation and Biological Carbon Loss in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Environmental and Resource Economics, 60:3, 433–69.
• Li, M., Wu, J., Deng, X., (2013). Identifying Drivers of Land Use Change in China: A Spatial Multinomial Logit Model Analysis. Land Economics, 89:4, 632–54.
• Li, M., (2010). Decomposing the Change of CO2 Emissions in China: A Distance Function Approach. Ecological Economics, 70:1, 77–85.
• Reimer, J., Li, M., (2010). Trade Costs and the Gains from Trade in Crop Agriculture. American Journal of Agricultural Economics , 92:4, 1024–39.
• Reimer, J., Li, M., (2009). Yield Variability and Agricultural Trade. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 38:2, 258–70.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Technical Reports

Research Reports

• Wiebe, K., Sulser, T., Pacheco, P., De Pinto, A., D'Croz, D., Dermawan, A., Thomas, T., Li, M., Robinson, S., Dunston, S., (2019). The palm oil dilemma: Policy tensions among higher productivity, rising demand, and deforestation: IFPRI Policy Brief.
• Li, M., (2014). An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Farmland Protection Policy in China. IFPRI Discussion Paper 01348 *
• De Pinto, A., Li, M., Thomas, T., Haruna, A., (2014). Low Emission Strategies for LULUCF Sector: Case Studies for the Country of Vietnam. Scientific Report prepared for the USAID-Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) project *
• Wu, J., Li, M., (2013). Land Use Change and Agricultural Intensification: Key Research Questions and Innovative Modeling Approaches. Research Report prepared for CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets *
• Li, M., Wu, J., Deng, X., (2011). Unintended Effects of Urbanization in China: Land Use Spillovers and Soil Carbon Loss. IFPRI Discussion Paper 01138 *

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

Newsletter

• Li, M., Guo, Z., Zhang, W., (2021). Optimizing seasonal-spatial crop production to improve its economic-environmental performance in Bangladesh. IFPRI Blog : Research Post *
• Li, M., (2018). Climate change to adversely impact grain production in China by 2030. Opposite the editorial page, Thomson Reuters Foundation News *

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.