There was a ppaer a couple of years ago looking at pre- and post- Cultural Revolution family outcomes in China. The authors argue there was a persistence of something we might call "class values" despite the revolution, resulting in income variances long after. www.nber.org/papers/w27053

Persistence Despite Revolutions

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