-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … cadre status, but the magnitudes are not large and provide only a modest incentive to participate in village …

-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … cadre status, but the magnitudes are not large and provide only a modest incentive to participate in village …

-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … cadre status, but the magnitudes are not large and provide only a modest incentive to participate in village …

-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … cadre status, but the magnitudes are not large and provide only a modest incentive to participate in village …

-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … cadre status, but the magnitudes are not large and provide only a modest incentive to participate in village …

-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … cadre status, but the magnitudes are not large and provide only a modest incentive to participate in village-level public …

-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … cadre status, but the magnitudes are not large and provide only a modest incentive to participate in village …

China, we show an alternative, positive scenario consistent with the presence of an implicit, performance-based incentive … contract that ties the household incomes of local officials to market liberalization, increases in consumer demand, and the …