Friends from Afar: The Taiping Rebellion, Cultural Proximity and Primary Schooling in the Lower Yangzi, 1850-1949
Friends from Afar: The Taiping Rebellion, Cultural Proximity and Primary Schooling in the Lower Yangzi, 1850-1949
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远方的朋友：太平天国运动、文化邻近和长江下游的小学教育，1850-1949 年
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10.2139/ssrn.2683300
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2016
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Melanie Meng Xue
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Yucong Hao;Melanie Meng Xue
本文检验了移民与本地人之间的文化距离阻碍公共产品提供的假设。太平天国运动是一次冲击，导致没有共同治理历史的群体被重新安置到同一地区。我们使用一个独特的历史数据集的姓氏在长江下游的中国构建一个衡量移民和本地人之间的文化距离（MNCD）。我们发现，在二十世纪早期，MNCD增加一个标准差与每万人减少0.19所公立小学有关。结果生存各种鲁棒性检查和工具变量分析，利用本地和附近的人口之间预先存在的文化距离。证据的时间，当MNCD生效表明，主要的机制运行从移民本地文化距离通过质量的集体决策，现代小学教育。
This paper tests the hypothesis that the cultural distance between migrants and natives impedes the provision of public goods. The Taiping Rebellion was a shock that caused groups without a history of shared governance to be relocated to the same region. We use a unique historical dataset of surnames in the Lower Yangzi of China to construct a measure of the cultural distance between migrants and natives (MNCD). We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in the MNCD is associated with a decrease of over 0.19 public primary schools per 10,000 persons in the early twentieth century. The results survive various robustness checks and an instrumental variable analysis that exploits the pre-existing cultural distances between the native and the nearby population. Evidence from the timing of when the MNCD takes effect suggests that the primary mechanism runs from migrant-native cultural distance through quality of collective decision-making to modern primary education.