Impacts of Institutional Changes in Cambodia under the Pol Pot Regime

Katsuo Kogure

No 2012-13, CEI Working Paper Series from Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

Abstract: This paper presents an econometric analysis of impacts of the communist revolution by the Khmer Rouge (1975-’79) in Cambodia on economic behaviors of survivors after 1979. Specifically, we compare forced marriages in the Pol Pot regime with regular marriages after its collapse, and make econometric evaluations of their educational investments for children. Our econometric results are interpreted as meaning that forced-marriage couples invested less in their children’s education than the regular-marriage couples. We consider those results, by reflecting upon social and political structures of Cambodia under and after the Pol Pot regime.

Keywords: educational investments for children; family organizations; institutions; norms; political economy; violence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 N35 O12 P26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2013-03
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Note: March 2013
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