Economic Persistence Despite Adverse Policies: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
Guirkinger C. Aldashev G. Aldashev A. Fodor M.
1 January 2022Oxford University Press
Economic Journal
2022#132Issue 641258 - 272 pp.
We study the long-run persistence of relative economic well-being under adverse government policies using a combination of historical and contemporaneous data from Kyrgyzstan. After controlling for unobservable local effects, the economic well-being of Kyrgyz households in the 2010s correlates with the early twentieth-century average wealth of their tribes. Inequality at the tribe level in the 2010s correlates with wealth inequality in the early twentieth century. The likely channels of persistence are the inter-generational transmission of human capital, relative status, political power and cultural traits. Transmission of material wealth, differences in natural endowments or geographic sorting cannot explain persistence.
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University of Namur, Belgium
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
Kazakh-British Technical University, Kazakhstan
Satbayev Kazakh National Technical University, Kazakhstan
University of Namur
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Kazakh-British Technical University
Satbayev Kazakh National Technical University
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