Zhang, Jian; Giles, John T.; Rozelle, Scott - 2012
-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural …-level government. The paper does not find evidence that households of village cadres earn significant rents from having a family member … derived both from direct compensation and subsidies for cadres and indirectly through returns earned in off-farm employment …