There Will Be Killing: Collectivization and Death of Draft Animals

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chen, Shuo; Lan, Xiaohuan
• 署名单位: Fudan University; Fudan University; Fudan University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20160247
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 58-77
• 关键词: PROPERTY-RIGHTS; INVESTMENT; CHINA

摘要

The elimination of private property rights can lead to ineffcient use of productive assets. In China's collectivization movement from 1955 to 1957, instead of transferring draft animals to the ownership of the collectives, peasants slaughtered them to keep the meat and hide. By comparing 1,600 counties that launched the movement in different years, the difference-in-differences estimates suggest that the animal loss during the movement was 12 to 15 percent, or 7.4-9.5 million head. Grain output dropped by 7 percent due to lower animal inputs and lower productivity.