Kin-based institutions and state capacity

dc.contributor.authorEzcurra Orayen, Roberto
dc.contributor.departmentEconomíaes_ES
dc.contributor.departmentEkonomiaeu
dc.contributor.departmentInstitute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBEen
dc.contributor.funderUniversidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-25T09:58:22Z
dc.date.available2025-06-25T09:58:22Z
dc.date.issued2025-06-01
dc.date.updated2025-06-25T09:54:39Z
dc.description.abstractThis 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.sponsorshipThe 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.citationEzcurra, 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.doi10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2025.102676
dc.identifier.issn0176-2680
dc.identifier.urihttps://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/54314
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Journal of Political Economy (2025), vol. 88, 102676
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2021-2023/PID2021-127119NB-I00/ES/
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://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.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectKin-based institutionsen
dc.subjectPolitical centralizationen
dc.subjectState capacityen
dc.titleKin-based institutions and state capacityen
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