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Article: Political Elites and Hometown Favoritism in Famine-stricken China
Title | Political Elites and Hometown Favoritism in Famine-stricken China |
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Authors | |
Keywords | O12 D73 N95 |
Issue Date | 2021 |
Publisher | Academic Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jce |
Citation | Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, v. 49 n. 1, p. 22-37 How to Cite? |
Abstract | China's Great Leap Famine has remained to this day the severest in human history, and yet few studies have invoked the human factor in explaining its outcome. In sharp contrast to Mao's aggressive extractive policy against the peasantry, the 181 Central Committee (CC) members—the political elite of the Chinese Communist Party—may have alleviated the casualty of this most devastating famine, by arranging more “resale grain” to be shipped to their hometowns. Specifically, having an additional native CC member in a prefecture reduces the excess death of that prefecture by 46,500, accounting for 2.3 percentage points in the death rate when evaluated at the mean. The effect is more pronounced if a CC member worked in the central planning apparatus in charge of grain transfer. Moreover, evidence suggests that the counties with more CC members tended to receive more resale grain, while grain procurement remained affected. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/283989 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.8 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.504 |
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dc.contributor.author | Kung, JKS | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhou, T | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-20T05:55:08Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-20T05:55:08Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, v. 49 n. 1, p. 22-37 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0147-5967 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/283989 | - |
dc.description.abstract | China's Great Leap Famine has remained to this day the severest in human history, and yet few studies have invoked the human factor in explaining its outcome. In sharp contrast to Mao's aggressive extractive policy against the peasantry, the 181 Central Committee (CC) members—the political elite of the Chinese Communist Party—may have alleviated the casualty of this most devastating famine, by arranging more “resale grain” to be shipped to their hometowns. Specifically, having an additional native CC member in a prefecture reduces the excess death of that prefecture by 46,500, accounting for 2.3 percentage points in the death rate when evaluated at the mean. The effect is more pronounced if a CC member worked in the central planning apparatus in charge of grain transfer. Moreover, evidence suggests that the counties with more CC members tended to receive more resale grain, while grain procurement remained affected. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Academic Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jce | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Comparative Economics | - |
dc.subject | O12 | - |
dc.subject | D73 | - |
dc.subject | N95 | - |
dc.title | Political Elites and Hometown Favoritism in Famine-stricken China | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Kung, JKS: jkskung@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Kung, JKS=rp02402 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jce.2020.06.001 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85087676218 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 311149 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 49 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 22 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 37 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000621430200002 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0147-5967 | - |