Meng, Xin; Yared, Pierre; Qian, Nancy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in 1959, when the famine began, food production was almost three times more than population subsistence needs; and 2) regions with higher per capita food production that year suffered...