Politics, Growth and Inequality in Rural China: Does It Pay To Join the Party?

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Political connections, financing and firm performance: Evidence from Chinese private firms ☆ (2008, background): “It is also among the first to examine the role of political connections in a transition economy.1 Morduch and Sicular (2000) find that Party 2 They were presented as peripheral in the Constitution of 1978, and were considered to be “a marginal sector to be tolerated temporarily and tightly…”
Bank Financing in China’s Private Sector: The Payoffs of Political Capital (2009, result): “First, there is little existing research on the effects of legislative membership as compared to a growing literature on those of CCP membership (e.g., Liu, 2003; Morduch & Sicular, 2000; Xie & Hannum, 1996).”
Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership: Evidence from Urban Chinese Twins (2007, unknown): “Most studies of the returns to Chinese Communist Party membership, and of the value of political connections in general, give only limited information on individual characteristics, and thus unobserved heterogeneity may confound any causal inference.”
THE URBAN–RURAL INCOME GAP AND INEQUALITY IN CHINA (2007, unknown): “A variety of characteristics can influence per capita household incomes (Miles 1997; Gustafsson and Li 1998, 2001: 44-83; Knight and Song 1999; Morduch and Sicular 2000).”