TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Sato, Hiroshi
AU  - Li, Shi
        TI  - Revolution and Family in Rural China: Influence of Family Background on Current Family Wealth
        PY  - 2007/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3223
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3223
        AB  - This paper examines the influence of family human capital on offspring’s economic status in post reform rural China by concentrating on the father-son relationship. We focus on two indicators of family background: family class origin (jiating chengfen) and occupational experience. The results of a family wealth function for 2002 suggest that, after controlling for other individual and family characteristics, both measures of family background have a significant influence on family wealth. First, parental experience of a nonagricultural family business before collectivization has a positive and statistically significant effect on current family wealth. Second, the offspring of landlord/rich peasant and middle peasant families are more likely to have higher family wealth than poor and lower-middle peasant families. We also find cohort and regional differences in the influence of family background. Our findings suggest that the strength and robustness of the Chinese rural family as a cultural institution preserves family human capital across radical institutional changes.
        KW  - family human capital
KW  - family background
KW  - intergenerational correlation
KW  - distribution of wealth
        ER  -