Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Liang Bai, King's College London; Lingwei Wu, Fudan University
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Project Citation:
Bai, Liang, and Wu, Lingwei. Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-09-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/E193723V1
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Summary:
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This is the replication package for "Political Conflict and Development Dynamics: Economic Legacies of the Cultural Revolution".
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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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Geographic Coverage:
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China
Time Period(s):
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1953 – 2000
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