Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution

IF 2.5 1区 历史学 Q2 ECONOMICS Journal of Economic History Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI:10.1017/s0022050723000384
Liang Bai, Lingwei Wu
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As a multi-faceted socio-political movement in twentieth-century China, the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) witnessed conflict and social upheaval. This paper investigates its economic legacies, exploiting geographic variation in revolutionary intensity, measured by the number of resulting deaths. Using a newly assembled county-level panel dataset over five decades, we find worse-affected areas performed slightly better at baseline, but were slower to industrialize. This effect was large in the early 1980s before diminishing to become insignificant by 2000. Using individual-level census data, we find more-exposed cohorts are less likely to obtain higher education degrees and to work in professional and entrepreneurial occupations.
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政治冲突与发展动力:文化大革命的经济遗产
文化大革命(1966-1976)是20世纪中国一场多方面的社会政治运动,它见证了冲突和社会动荡。本文研究了革命的经济遗产,利用革命强度的地理差异,通过由此导致的死亡人数来衡量。通过对过去50年新组建的县级面板数据集的分析,我们发现,受影响最严重的地区在基线水平上的表现略好,但工业化速度较慢。这种影响在20世纪80年代早期很大,到2000年逐渐减弱,变得微不足道。使用个人层面的普查数据,我们发现更多暴露的人群不太可能获得更高的教育学位,也不太可能从事专业和创业职业。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Economic History is devoted to the multidisciplinary study of history and economics, and is of interest not only to economic historians but to social and demographic historians, as well as economists in general. The journal has broad coverage, in terms of both methodology and geographic scope. Topics covered include money and banking, trade, manufacturing, technology, transportation, industrial organisation, labour, agriculture, servitude, demography, education, economic growth, and the role of government and regulation. In addition, an extensive book review section keeps readers informed about the latest work in economic history and related fields.
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