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Article: Long Live Keju! The Persistent Effects of China's Civil Examination System
Title | Long Live Keju! The Persistent Effects of China's Civil Examination System |
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Keywords | N15 - Asia including Middle East O43 - Institutions and Growth Z10 - General |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Wiley for Royal Economic Society. The Journal's web site is located at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-0297 |
Citation | The Economic Journal, 2020, Epub 2020-04-14 How to Cite? |
Abstract | China's civil examination system (keju), an incredibly long-lived institution, has a persistent impact on human capital outcomes today. Using the variation in the density of jinshi—the highest qualification—across 278 Chinese prefectures in the Ming-Qing period (c. 1368–1905) to proxy for this effect, we find that a doubling of jinshi per 10,000 population leads to an 8.5% increase in years of schooling in 2010. The persistent effect of keju can be attributed to a multitude of channels including cultural transmission, educational infrastructure, social capital, and to a lesser extent political elites. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/282480 |
ISSN | 2022 Impact Factor: 3.2 2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 4.683 |
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dc.contributor.author | Chen, T | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kung, JKS | - |
dc.contributor.author | Ma, C | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-15T05:28:40Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-05-15T05:28:40Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The Economic Journal, 2020, Epub 2020-04-14 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0013-0133 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/282480 | - |
dc.description.abstract | China's civil examination system (keju), an incredibly long-lived institution, has a persistent impact on human capital outcomes today. Using the variation in the density of jinshi—the highest qualification—across 278 Chinese prefectures in the Ming-Qing period (c. 1368–1905) to proxy for this effect, we find that a doubling of jinshi per 10,000 population leads to an 8.5% increase in years of schooling in 2010. The persistent effect of keju can be attributed to a multitude of channels including cultural transmission, educational infrastructure, social capital, and to a lesser extent political elites. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Wiley for Royal Economic Society. The Journal's web site is located at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-0297 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | The Economic Journal | - |
dc.rights | Preprint This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: [FULL CITE], which has been published in final form at [Link to final article]. Authors are not required to remove preprints posted prior to acceptance of the submitted version. Postprint This is the accepted version of the following article: [full citation], which has been published in final form at [Link to final article]. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | N15 - Asia including Middle East | - |
dc.subject | O43 - Institutions and Growth | - |
dc.subject | Z10 - General | - |
dc.title | Long Live Keju! The Persistent Effects of China's Civil Examination System | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Kung, JKS: jkskung@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Ma, C: macc@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Kung, JKS=rp02402 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Ma, C=rp02278 | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/ej/ueaa043 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85100685637 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 309871 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | Epub 2020-04-14 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000593203100006 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0013-0133 | - |