ECONOMIC PERSISTENCE DESPITE ADVERSE POLICIES: EVIDENCE FROM KYRGYZSTAN

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Guirkinger, Catherine; Aldashev, Gani; Aldashev, Alisher; Fodor, Mate
• 署名单位: University of Namur; Universite Libre de Bruxelles; Kazakh British Technical University; Satbayev University
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueab037
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 258-272
• 关键词: inequality; mobility; TRENDS

摘要

We study the long-run persistence of relative economic well-being under adverse government policies using a combination of historical and contemporaneous data from Kyrgyzstan. After controlling for unobservable local effects, the economic well-being of Kyrgyz households in the 2010s correlates with the early twentieth-century average wealth of their tribes. Inequality at the tribe level in the 2010s correlates with wealth inequality in the early twentieth century. The likely channels of persistence are the inter-generational transmission of human capital, relative status, political power and cultural traits. Transmission of material wealth, differences in natural endowments or geographic sorting cannot explain persistence.