Lineage networks, urban migration and income inequality: Evidence from rural China
Lineage networks, urban migration and income inequality: Evidence from rural China
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血统网络、城市人口流动和收入不平等：来自中国农村的证据
DOI：
10.1016/j.jce.2020.03.003
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发表时间：
2020-06-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Yao, Yang
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作者：
Foltz, Jeremy;Guo, Yunnan;Yao, Yang
本研究的重点是中国血统网络通过对农村人口向城市迁移的影响，在缓解农村收入不平等方面所起的作用。来自中国农村的独特面板数据确定了血统网络（祠堂和家谱），并提供了收入和迁移经历的详细信息。我们的主要发现是，血统网络通过降低成本来增加所有社会群体的迁移，这种模式在穷人中更为突出。因此，这些人口积累了更多的财富，从而减少了原籍村的收入不平等。无论是对外源子样本的考虑，还是使用历史自然灾害对当前世系祠堂或家谱的影响的工具变量策略，估计结果都保持稳健。本文的分析，再加上新兴的关于网络和移民的实证文献，为快速增长的经济体中的收入不平等如何随社交网络的使用而变化提供了一个新的视角。
This work focuses on the role that Chinese lineage networks can play in alleviating income inequality in rural villages through their effect on migration from rural to urban areas. Unique panel data from rural China identifies lineage networks (ancestral hall and genealogy) and provides detailed information on income and migration experiences. Our key finding is that lineage networks increase migration for all social groups by lowering costs, and this pattern is more salient for the poor. Consequently, this population accumulates greater wealth, which decreases income inequality in origin villages. The estimation results remain robust to both the inclusion of exogenous subsamples and an instrumental variables strategy using the effect of historical natural disasters on current lineage ancestral hall or genealogy. The analysis in this paper, coupled with an emerging empirical literature on networks and migration, provides a new perspective on how income inequality in a fast-growing economy varies with access to social networks.