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- Title
Economic Persistence Despite Adverse Policies: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan.
- Authors
Guirkinger, Catherine; Aldashev, Gani; Aldashev, Alisher; Fodor, Mate
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
KYRGYZSTAN; INCOME inequality; GOVERNMENT policy; HUMAN capital; TWENTIETH century; POWER (Social sciences); TRIBES
- Publication
Economic Journal, 2022, Vol 132, Issue 641, p258
- ISSN
0013-0133
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ej/ueab037