A central feature of the "egalitarianism" said to have undermined work incentives in Chinese agricultural produ ction teams during the 1960s and 1970s was the distribution of grain rations independently of work contribution. This paper analyzes two m odels of grain rationing, one drawn from...

Are the effects of the Neolithic revolution still impacting on incomes across the world today? I find strong support for this proposition using new, country-specific estimates of the timing of the agricultural transition and provide evidence that the differences are due to how technological...