2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2017.10.006
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Lineage-based heterogeneity and cooperative behavior in rural China

Abstract: This paper investigates how lineages, the commonly found organizations in rural villages of China, affect people's intra-and cross-lineage cooperative behavior. We use data from the Chinese Household Income Project Survey 2002, which exclusively contains information about the lineage structure in these villages allowing us to classify three levels of lineage-based heterogeneity. Our identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of lineage-based heterogeneity. We find evidence that people in a village with h… Show more

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“…Alternatively, threatened ostracism sometimes promotes development. In rural Chinese villages, prospects of exclusion from lineage networks have deterred defection from cooperative endeavours (He et al, 2018).…”
Section: A Conceptual Approach To Analysing Powermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Alternatively, threatened ostracism sometimes promotes development. In rural Chinese villages, prospects of exclusion from lineage networks have deterred defection from cooperative endeavours (He et al, 2018).…”
Section: A Conceptual Approach To Analysing Powermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The connotation of the transactional relationship in the clan network includes trust and the evolution of cooperative relationships. The clan network gives special attention to the concepts of reciprocity, mutual forbearance, and trust ( He et al, 2017 ). The clan networks are highly important institutions since they facilitate cooperation ( Greif and Tabellini, 2017 ).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Rural cooperative finance is a financial service organization formed by peasants, agricultural collective economic organizations, and other economic and audit organizations in a cooperative manner, to meet the needs of rural economic and social construction and the life of peasants and to carry out a variety of financial activities mainly aimed at peasants, agricultural collective economic organizations and other rural economic and social organizations as the target of the service [1][2][3].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Hesheng Xu. Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences, 9(1) (2024)[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] …”
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