Culture of Social Integration: How Extractive Colonialism Promotes Contemporary Individual Income. Issue 4 (23rd February 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fu, Tong; Li, Yuanyuan; Feng, Dawei
• Is Part Of: Applied economics letters. Volume 30:Issue 4(2023)
• Page Start: 405
• Page End: 409
• Publication Date: 2023-02-23
• Subjects: Extractive colonialism -- long-run development -- culture of social integration; A10 -- N00 -- O10; B25 -- D31 -- O15; Economics -- Periodicals; Economics, Mathematical -- Periodicals; 330
• DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2021.1989366
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1350-4851

Abstract

ABSTRACT: By exploring the history of northeastern China in 1898–1911, this paper documents that extractive colonialism spurs a culture of social integration that generates a positive effect on contemporary individual income, with robustness to potential endogeneity bias. Given that the existing literature has emphasized the long-run negative economic impacts of extractive colonialism, this paper helps explain the following institutional puzzle: Why does extractive colonialism spur development in the long run? We thereby deepen understanding of colonialism and institutions from a cultural perspective.