Economic returns to communist party membership: Evidence from urban Chinese twins

Economic Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 523, 2007, Pages 1504-1520

  Li, Hongbin ^a,b   Liu, Pak Wai ^a   Zhang, Junsen ^a   Ma, Ning ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNISM; ESTIMATION METHOD; PARTY POLITICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 34848873114     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02092.x     Document Type: Article

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