Essays on economic spillovers, labor markets, and economic development.
- Resource Type
- Theses
- Authors
- Zou, Ben
- Source
- Dissertation Abstracts International; Dissertation Abstract International; 76-12A(E).
- Subject
- Economics
- Language
- English
Summary: The third chapter studies the effect of a large-scale industrialization effort in China known as the "Third Front Movement" on long-run development of regional economies. The Movement provides a unique policy experiment to study the important question of whether temporary government subsidies in the nascent industrial sector can permanently push a rural economy into a new development path. We find that decades after the Movement ended, industrialization and urbanization levels remained much higher in local economies that received large subsidies from the Movement, and the effects are mainly driven by the fast-growing non-state sector.