Metadata record for Replication data for: Do College Graduates Serving as Village Officials Help Rural China?
113682
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Replication data for: Do College Graduates Serving as Village Officials Help Rural China?
113682
http://doi.org/10.3886/E113682V1
Guojun He
Shaoda Wang
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Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
He, Guojun, and Wang, Shaoda. Replication data for: Do College Graduates Serving as Village Officials Help Rural China? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113682V1
Difference in Differences
D73 Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
H83 Public Administration; Public Sector Accounting and Audits
J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
P25 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
P26 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Political Economy; Property Rights
This study estimates the effect of improved bureaucrat quality on poverty alleviation by exploring a unique human capital reallocation policy in China—the College Graduate Village Officials (CGVOs) program. We find that introducing CGVOs into the village governance system improves the targeting and implementation of the central government's social assistance programs. CGVOs help eligible poor households understand and apply for relevant subsidies, thus increasing the number of pro-poor program beneficiaries. Further analysis suggests that CGVOs change bureaucrat quality, rather than quantity, of village governance, and their presence reduces elite capture of pro-poor programs.
China
Village by Year
Village data in China
[administrative records data, observational data]
Ministry of Agriculture in China