Traditional Clan Culture Promotes Modern Agricultural Production Efficiency:Effects and Mechanisms
The core of building up China's agricultural strength lies in improving the total factor productivity(TFP)of agriculture.Enhancing TFP requires attention not only to traditional technological innovation and progress but also to the improvement of resource allocation efficiency.Traditional clan culture can effectively enhance labor division and cooperation in rural areas,and boost the efficiency of resource allocation in agricultural production.Using historical genealogical data,this study empirically studies the impact of traditional clan culture on the growth rate of TFP in modem agriculture.The results show that the higher the genealogical density of the region,the higher the growth rate of agricultural TFP.Further decomposition of the growth rate of agricultural TFP shows that the pathway of traditional clan culture to improve the growth rate of agricultural TFP is mainly to improve the efficiency of resource allocation in agricultural production,rather than to promote the agricultural technological progress.Using the shortest distance between the prefecture-level city and Zhu Xi Academy as the instrumental variable of clan culture,the results of two-stage least squares estimation show that the above findings are robust.This paper highlights that the cohesion of traditional clan culture still plays an important economic role in modem agricultural production.
Traditional Clan CultureTotal Factor ProductivityAllocative EfficiencyTechnological Progress
万方数据
维普
