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.
Highlights
Marriage has always been a hot topic in society
The regression results of model (2) are shown in Table 3: As for the control variables, we can see that gender has a significant positive impact on the possibility of marriage matching between individuals and individuals working in government departments or institutions, indicating that during this period, women are more inclined to match with individuals working in government departments or institutions
Based on the survey data of China General Social Survey in 2013 and the characteristic data of all provinces in China, this paper establishes multiple regression models and probit regression to study the relationship between the size of government and marriage matching of children of cadres’ families and its mechanism
Summary
Marriage has always been a hot topic in society. For individuals, the choice of marriage is related to individual happiness, while for countries, it affects social harmony and development. The family of officials and cadres has attracted more and more attention from the public, and the behavior of children born in this family has often become a hot social issue This phenomenon is caused by historical reasons and related institutional factors. In addition to economic life, the Chinese government plays the role of “social rule maker” in all aspects This makes the study of government scale-related issues more and more necessary. This paper tries to analyze and study whether the size of government affects the marriage choice of children of cadres’ families as we imagine, and through what mechanism. Individual form cadre family is a topic of great public concern in china and what role government plays in their marriage matching process, which may be ignored in previous study and it’s the value of this paper.
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