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The Influence of Clan Surname Diversity on County Economic Development Performance in China: An Empirical Study Based on Chinese Genealogy Data

Culture is considered to be a deep-seated factor affecting 
economic development, among which the economic impact of cultural diversity has 
attracted considerable attention. At the county level, clans play an important 
cultural and social role. Although traditional clans in China are influenced by 
Confucianism, different clans have different cultural inheritance. Genealogy, 
ancestral precepts and clan rules are the 
carriers of each clan’s ideological inheritance. Different clans are 
distinguished by surnames, and cultural backgrounds and concepts are quite 
diverse. This paper will examine the impact of this diversity on the 
performance of county economic development. This paper collects the data of the 
Chinese Genealogy published by the Shanghai Library, collates and constructs 
the number of clan surnames and the diversity index of clan surnames in 1087 
counties, and uses the night light brightness data released by the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to measure the economic 
development performance of counties in China. Empirical results show that the 
diversity of clan surnames has a significant positive impact on the performance 
of county economic development, which remains stable in the test. The more 
diverse the clan surnames are, the better the economic development performance 
of counties will be.