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Article: The shaping of an institutional choice: Weather shocks, the Great Leap Famine, and agricultural decollectivization in China
Title | The shaping of an institutional choice: Weather shocks, the Great Leap Famine, and agricultural decollectivization in China |
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Keywords | China Decollectivization Great Leap Famine Weather shocks Public goods Institutional change |
Issue Date | 2014 |
Citation | Explorations in Economic History, 2014, v. 54, p. 1-26 How to Cite? |
Abstract | © 2014 Elsevier Inc. By providing more public goods (irrigation), collective agriculture can deal with negative weather shocks more effectively. Yet, collective institutions are fraught with problems of work incentives, excessive grain procurement, and the like, which in one extreme historical instance had resulted in great tragedy-China's Great Leap Famine. By exploiting the variation in the pace of agricultural decollectivization among the Chinese provinces during 1978-1984, we test the respective effects of weather shocks, the lasting impact of the Great Leap Famine, and public goods provision on the villages' institutional choice between collective and family farming. We find that bad weather at the time of decollectivization had the likely effect of strengthening the collectives, but that effect reverses in provinces that had experienced greater famine severity or had enjoyed better public goods provision. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/256689 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.6 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.863 |
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dc.contributor.author | Bai, Ying | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kung, James Kai sing | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-24T08:57:37Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-07-24T08:57:37Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Explorations in Economic History, 2014, v. 54, p. 1-26 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0014-4983 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/256689 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © 2014 Elsevier Inc. By providing more public goods (irrigation), collective agriculture can deal with negative weather shocks more effectively. Yet, collective institutions are fraught with problems of work incentives, excessive grain procurement, and the like, which in one extreme historical instance had resulted in great tragedy-China's Great Leap Famine. By exploiting the variation in the pace of agricultural decollectivization among the Chinese provinces during 1978-1984, we test the respective effects of weather shocks, the lasting impact of the Great Leap Famine, and public goods provision on the villages' institutional choice between collective and family farming. We find that bad weather at the time of decollectivization had the likely effect of strengthening the collectives, but that effect reverses in provinces that had experienced greater famine severity or had enjoyed better public goods provision. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Explorations in Economic History | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | Decollectivization | - |
dc.subject | Great Leap Famine | - |
dc.subject | Weather shocks | - |
dc.subject | Public goods | - |
dc.subject | Institutional change | - |
dc.title | The shaping of an institutional choice: Weather shocks, the Great Leap Famine, and agricultural decollectivization in China | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.eeh.2014.06.001 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84908018218 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 54 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 26 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1090-2457 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000344825800001 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0014-4983 | - |