Zhang, Jian; Giles, John T.; Rozelle, Scott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … cadre status, but the magnitudes are not large and provide only a modest incentive to participate in village …-level government. The paper does not find evidence that households of village cadres earn significant rents from having a family member …