TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Li, Hongbin
AU  - Liu, Pak-Wai
AU  - Zhang, Junsen
AU  - Ma, Ning
        TI  - Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership: Evidence from Urban Chinese Twins
        PY  - 2006/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2118
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2118
        AB  - This paper estimates the returns to membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data we collected from China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes zero. One interpretation of these results is that the OLS Party premium is due to omitted ability and family background. This interpretation would suggest that Party members fare well not because of their special political status per se, but because of the superior ability that made them Party members. The estimates are also consistent with an alternative interpretation that Party membership not only has its own effect but also has an external effect on the sibling.
        KW  - China
KW  - communist party membership
KW  - twins
        ER  -