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- Title
Communism and patricide: Collectivization and domestic violence in 1960s China.
- Authors
Chen, Shuo; Peng, Yaohui; Wang, Danli
- Abstract
This paper studies the impact of collectivization on patricide in China during the Cultural Revolution. From 1955 to 1957, nearly 96 per cent of farmers were organized into communes. Consequently, fathers lost control over family wealth. We propose that this shift decreased fathers' bargaining power over their adult sons, which might increase family conflicts. On the basis of a novel dataset, we find that the speed of collectivization significantly increased patricide, and the result is robust by employing ruggedness to instrumenting for the speed of collectivization. Our study extends the literature on intra‐household bargaining from couples to intergenerational relationships.
- Subjects
CHINA; COLLECTIVE farming; PARRICIDE; CULTURAL Revolution, China, 1966-1976; INTERGENERATIONAL relations
- Publication
Economic History Review, 2024, Vol 77, Issue 2, p703
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ehr.13285