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Three essays on the economic history of modern China.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Three essays on the economic history of modern China./
Author:	Li, Dan.
Description:	116 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Robert A. Margo.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05A.
Subject:	Economics, History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3314044
ISBN:	9780549628286

Three essays on the economic history of modern China.
Li, Dan.

Three essays on the economic history of modern China. - 116 p.

Adviser: Robert A. Margo.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2008.

This dissertation comprises three chapters on the economic history of Modern China. The first chapter investigates the effects of civil wars on railroad development in pre-communist China. Chapters Two and Three (joint work with Chun-Yu Ho) explore the pattern of the unequal regional development in contemporaneous China.

ISBN: 9780549628286Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017418
Economics, History.

Three essays on the economic history of modern China.
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520 $a This dissertation comprises three chapters on the economic history of Modern China. The first chapter investigates the effects of civil wars on railroad development in pre-communist China. Chapters Two and Three (joint work with Chun-Yu Ho) explore the pattern of the unequal regional development in contemporaneous China.
520 $a In Chapter One, I analyze the economic effects of civil wars on the Chinese railroad industry development in later Qing Dynasty and so-called "Warlord Period" (1906-1923), during which China suffered from numerous violent internal conflicts, or "civil wars". I construct a new panel data set linking archival data for railroads to detailed information on civil wars. I show that conflicts had negative effects on business transportation flows, operating revenue, and investment. These effects occurred during the same period as the conflict, but also persisted after the fighting had stopped. My findings suggest that, in the absence of internal strife, China would have experienced more rapid growth during a crucial phase of its modern economic history.
520 $a Chapter Two analyzes the time series property of the various Chinese regional inequality measures from 1952 to 2000 by employing unit root techniques. We find that the inequality measures are trend stationary with structural breaks rather than following a random walk; moreover, the break points coincide with key events in the contemporary Chinese history (e.g. the Cultural Revolution and economic reforms). Our results imply that some policies have been influential enough to alter the trend of the evolution of regional inequality.
520 $a In Chapter Three, we analyze the evolution of urban output per capita across Chinese large cities in the post-reform era. Our results suggest no evidence of convergence across these cities from 1984 to 2003. However, we find that cities with comparable output per capita are likely to be located in the same region; further, cities tend to mirror the mobility of their counterparts located in the same province, but not the same region. The divergence in urban output per capita across the nation will continue if the current economic growth pattern persists in the future.
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