Marriage Choice, Government Size and Political Connection
- 1 Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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.
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