On the Origins and Persistent Effects of the World's First Meritocratic Institution
In: Comparative economic studies, Band 64, Heft 4, S. 563-581
ISSN: 1478-3320
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In: Comparative economic studies, Band 64, Heft 4, S. 563-581
ISSN: 1478-3320
In: Political science research and methods: PSRM, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 179-211
ISSN: 2049-8489
Using China's Great Leap Famine as example, this article shows how political career incentives can produce disastrous outcomes under the well-intended policies of a dictator. By exploiting a regression discontinuity design, the study identifies the causal effect of membership status in the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee—full (FM) Versus alternate members (AM)—on grain procurement. It finds that the difference in grain procurement between AMs and FMs who ranked near the discontinuity threshold is three times that between all AMs and all FMs on average. This may explain why Mao exceptionally promoted some lower-ranked but radical FMs shortly before the Leap: to create a demonstration effect in order to spur other weakly motivated FMs into action.
In: The China quarterly, Heft 195, S. 675-690
ISSN: 1468-2648
In: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 793-817
ISSN: 1539-2988
In: The Chinese economy: translations and studies, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 52-70
ISSN: 1558-0954
In: Asian perspective, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 67-92
ISSN: 0258-9184
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In: Asian perspective, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 67-92
ISSN: 2288-2871
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 701-719
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 701-719
ISSN: 0305-750X
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In: The journal of economic history, Band 81, Heft 4, S. 1137-1172
ISSN: 1471-6372
After peaking around the mid-eighteenth century, grain market integration in China declined by a colossal 80 percent amid a twofold increase in population and remained at low levels for well over a century. Markets only resumed their growth momentum after the largest peasant revolt—the Taiping Rebellion—wiped out roughly one-sixth of the Chinese population starting 1851. This U-shaped pattern of grain market integration distinguished China from Europe in their trajectories of market development. Using grain prices to divide China into grain-deficit and grainsurplus regions, we find that the negative relationship between population growth and market integration originated from the grain-surplus-cum-exporting regions.
In: Economica, Band 85, Heft 337, S. 41-74
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In: Economica, Band 85, Heft 337, S. 41-74
ISSN: 1468-0335
By analysing data from a survey of 511 Chinese private enterprises, we find that their owners respond to government discrimination by developing political connections with government officials. A one‐standard‐deviation increase in the insecurity of property rights has the effect of increasing the number of 'friends' in the government by a substantial 22%. These 'friends' significantly help to mitigate by half the negative effect arising from the difficulties of obtaining land and excessive regulations on enterprise growth. This explains why an institutional environment of weak property rights has not stopped private enterprises in China from developing rapidly.
In: Journal of development economics, Band 116, S. 89-104
ISSN: 0304-3878
In: Journal of development economics, Band 116, S. 89-104
ISSN: 0304-3878
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