[三农学术推文18] 阮荣平等：中国农村信仰的代际闭合效应的经济分析

Ruan Rongping, Xiuhua Wang, Zheng Fengtian. An economic analysis on intergenerational lock-in effects of belief in rural China[J]. China Agricultural Economic Review, 2016, 8(1): 170-190.

Purpose

– Rural China has been undergoing the “religion fever” since the Reform and Opening-up. By comparing the intergenerational lock-in effects of religious belief with that of non-religious belief, the purpose of this paper is to explain why more and more peasants convert to religion especially Christianity in China.

Design/methodology/approach

– Data used in this paper comes from a field survey conducted in villages, Funan county. The samples were obtained by the two-stage cluster probability proportional sampling method. Based on the collected survey data, econometric model on the intergenerational lock-in effects of belief was constructed and used for analysis.

Findings

– Compared with non-religious believers, religious believers can transmit their beliefs more successfully. In addition, the intergenerational lock-in effects of religious beliefs is weakened by oblique socialization in contemporary rural China.

Originality/value

– This is the first paper focussing on intergenerational transmission of belief in rural China; although many researchers did careful analyses on effects of parents’ belief or religiosity on children’s belief or religiosity in the West, few of them compared the success of intergenerational transmission between different beliefs. This paper fills this gap; as an interdisciplinary study, this paper tries to study religion in economics analysis approaches. This attempt extends research field in Economics and at the same time enriches analysis tools in Religion.

Keywords:

Rural development, Rural household behaviour, Rural education, Rural sociology

原文链接：http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/CAER-05-2014-0054

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