Study On Human Capital Under The Governance Of Clan

Clan is a kind of social organization in China which is made of the male blood relation and formed under the rule of the patriarchal concept.It's a kinship community which has the common ancestor's family group.Clan relies on the repairing spectrum,ancestor worship,mutual assistance and other activities to contact the people.Because of its social and cultural function,clan can unite people together.Among them,initiating education and subsidizing the school were one of the specific manifestations of its social and economic functions.As an informal social organization in traditional rural area in China,clan has played an important role in Chinese rural governance.Meanwhile,clan prefer normative knowledge than science knowledge because of the spillover effect of normative knowledge.This paper uses the data of CFPS and analyzes the effects of clan on the human capital and the empirical results show that: The average schooling years per capita is 1.3 years higher in the village where the power of clan is stronger.Then,individual from the villages where the power of the clan is stronger tends to choose the liberal arts majors in higher education.Meanwhile,he also prefers to choose the job about public administration rather than the job about science and technology studies.The influence of clan on the choice of investment direction of human capital is worthy of further discussion and attention.On the one hand,clan forces to pay more attention to male human capital investment,and invest more in "normative knowledge" or "useless knowledge".Compared with the development path of human capital in the Middle Ages of Europe,this may be one of the important reasons for the lag of the development of science and technology in China's history and the "big diversion" of western developed countries.The national innovation ability relies more on the whole innovation atmosphere and individual innovation consciousness,if the human capital investment direction concentrates on the humanities knowledge rather than the relative natural science knowledge and the occupation choice tends to the civil servant profession,it will not be conducive to the Chinese innovation consciousness cultivation and the human capital competitiveness enhancement.