The Effect of State Capacity Under Different Economic Systems

Lu, Yi; Luan, Mengna; Sng, Tuan-Hwee

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“…Unwilling to turn over their valuable animals in exchange for a meager cash payment of one-third or even one-fifth of a price that was already very low, many peasants instead chose to slaughter their animals. 7 According to statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture (1990), Figure 2, panel A, shows an abrupt decline in the national inventory of draft animals during collectivization from 1955 to 1957, decreasing by 3.6 million head compared to the 1954 level. The animal loss was indeed the result of mass slaughter.…”

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There Will Be Killing: Collectivization and Death of Draft Animals

Chen

Lan

2017

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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The elimination of private property rights can lead to ineffcient use of productive assets. In China's collectivization movement from 1955 to 1957, instead of transferring draft animals to the ownership of the collectives, peasants slaughtered them to keep the meat and hide. By comparing 1,600 counties that launched the movement in different years, the difference-in-differences estimates suggest that the animal loss during the movement was 12 to 15 percent, or 7.4–9.5 million head. Grain output dropped by 7 percent due to lower animal inputs and lower productivity. (JEL N45, N55, O13, P26, P32, Q11)

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“…In 1954, the number was about 200 (National Bureau of Statistics 1957a). We ignore these special cases in the following analysis 7. For anecdotal accounts of such slaughter in government reports, seeHuang (1992) andYe (2006).…”

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There Will Be Killing: Collectivization and Death of Draft Animals

Chen

Lan

2017

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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States and economic growth: Capacity and constraints

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Koyama

2017

Explorations in Economic History

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State Capacity and Economic Development

Dincecco

2017

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State capacity - the government's ability to accomplish its intended policy goals - plays an important role in market-oriented economic development today. Yet state capacity improvements are often difficult to achieve. This Element analyzes the historical origins of state capacity. It evaluates long-run state development in Western Europe - the birthplace of both the modern state and modern economic growth - with a focus on three key inflection points: the rise of the city-state, the nation-state, and the welfare state. This Element develops a conceptual framework regarding the basic political conditions that enable the state to take effective policy actions. This framework highlights the government's challenge to exert proper authority over both its citizenry and itself. It concludes by analyzing the European state development process relative to other world regions. This analysis characterizes the basic historical features that helped make Western Europe different. By taking a long-run approach, it provides a new perspective on the deep-rooted relationship between state capacity and economic development.

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The Effect of State Capacity Under Different Economic Systems

Cited by 4 publications

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There Will Be Killing: Collectivization and Death of Draft Animals

There Will Be Killing: Collectivization and Death of Draft Animals

States and economic growth: Capacity and constraints

State Capacity and Economic Development

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