回归不连续设计
中国
野蛮人
间断(语言学)
公司治理
遗产管理(遗嘱认证法)
发展经济学
政府(语言学)
经济
政治学
历史
地理
经济地理学
法学
古代史
财务
数学分析
哲学
病理
医学
语言学
数学
作者
Yu Bai,Anastasia Arabadzhyan,Yanjun Li
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2022.01.010
摘要
This paper examines the long-term effects of historical institutions on modern economic development. The Ming Great Wall, built to prevent incursions from northern barbarian nomads, divided China, which encouraged institutionalized self-governance, from the patron-client model of the nomads who lacked a system of local government or a fiscal and legal system. By exploring this cutoff and using a geographical regression discontinuity design (GRDD) framework, we document that present-day economic development, as measured by nighttime light intensity, exhibits a discontinuity at the Great Wall. After considering other potential explanatory factors, we suggest that the differences in the administration established during the Ming dynasty might explain this discontinuity. The immediate impacts on the economic outcomes during the succeeding dynasty and the persistent differences in institutional development proxies, which serve as deep determinants of economic development, represent supplements to our findings.
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