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Born leaders: China’s municipal party secretaries

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  • Yongle Li
  • Xiaobo Hu

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Applying relative-age effect theory to China, we examine the political career development of municipal party secretaries. Our analysis presented in this paper provides substantial evidence in favour of those who were older in their cohort at school, i.e., those who were born in October and November are more likely than those who were born in June or July to be advanced to a party leadership position in an earlier time. This research fills in a gap in the field of RAE from a comparative perspective, and it also provides insights into long-term effects of relative age in China’s increasingly competitive political careers that challenge the conventional wisdom in political science literature.

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  • Yongle Li & Xiaobo Hu, 2022. "Born leaders: China’s municipal party secretaries," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(7), pages 626-629, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:29:y:2022:i:7:p:626-629
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2021.1881428
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