TITLE:
Marriage Choice, Government Size and Political Connection
AUTHORS:
Shili Chen
KEYWORDS:
Political Connection, Government Size, Cadre Family Background, Marriage
JOURNAL NAME:
Modern Economy,
Vol.10 No.3,
March
12,
2019
ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the relationship between government
size and marriage matching in China, trying to figure out the mechanism how
government size makes impact on individuals as well. Based on the data of China
General Social Survey in 2013 (CGSS2013), the results show that the enlargement
of government scale will make the individuals with family background of cadres
more likely to marry those with family background of cadres than those without
family background of cadres. This paper points out that the value of cadre
family’s political connection expands as government size increase, which drives
individual with cadre family background to marry with cadre through providing
more opportunity and motivation. Besides, this paper further verifies political
connection expands with expansion of government size from self-evaluation of
the importance of political connection and family income aspect.