Kin-based institutions and state capacity

Ezcurra Orayen, Roberto

Kin-based institutions and state capacity

dc.contributor.author	Ezcurra Orayen, Roberto
dc.contributor.department	Economía	es_ES
dc.contributor.department	Ekonomia	eu
dc.contributor.department	Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE	en
dc.contributor.funder	Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa
dc.date.accessioned	2025-06-25T09:58:22Z
dc.date.available	2025-06-25T09:58:22Z
dc.date.issued	2025-06-01
dc.date.updated	2025-06-25T09:54:39Z
dc.description.abstract	This paper examines the relationship between kin-based institutions and state capacity. The results show that the intensity of kinship networks is a strong predictor of present-day state capacity, both across and within countries. Societies historically characterized by more intensive kinship systems tend to have weaker states today. This finding holds after accounting for various variables that may be correlated with both kinship network intensity and state capacity, including a broad range of geographic, historical, and contemporary factors. The results are also robust when employing an instrumental variable approach that exploits plausibly exogenous variation in historical exposure to the marriage laws of the medieval Catholic Church. Additionally, the analysis reveals that societies with intensive kin-based institutions typically exhibit lower political centralization. Given the essential role of political centralization in establishing state capacity, this finding helps explain the negative association between kinship intensity and state capacity.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	The author would like to thank the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Project PID2021-127119NB-I00) for funding the research, as well as the Public University of Navarre for providing Open Access funding.
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dc.identifier.citation	Ezcurra, R. (2025). Kin-based institutions and state capacity. European Journal of Political Economy, 88, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2025.102676.
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2025.102676
dc.identifier.issn	0176-2680
dc.identifier.uri	https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/54314
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.relation.ispartof	European Journal of Political Economy (2025), vol. 88, 102676
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2021-2023/PID2021-127119NB-I00/ES/
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2025.102676
dc.rights	© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	Kin-based institutions	en
dc.subject	Political centralization	en
dc.subject	State capacity	en
dc.title	Kin-based institutions and state capacity	en
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