Return to Education for China’s Return Migrant Entrepreneurs
Return to Education for China’s Return Migrant Entrepreneurs
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DOI：
10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.03.012
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发表时间：
2015-08
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
F. Hu
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作者：
F. Hu
本文利用大规模的返乡农民工调查数据，对农村创业者中国的返乡教育状况进行了研究。通过利用中国社会男性占主导地位的独特文化，我们利用女性的教育来规范她们的丈夫的教育。研究结果表明，中国返乡创业的农民工多上一年学的回报率在12.6%-18.8%之间，远高于文献中对农民工教育回报率的估计。我们还发现，雇佣有偿员工的企业家接受教育的回报是自有账户员工的两倍多。
This paper examines the return to education for entrepreneurs in rural China with a large return migrant survey dataset. By exploiting the unique culture of male dominance in Chinese society, we use women’s education to instrument their husbands’ schooling. The results show that the return to one additional year of schooling ranges between 12.6% and 18.8% for China’s return migrant entrepreneurs, much larger than the estimated returns to education for off-farm wage workers documented in the literature. We also find that the return to education for entrepreneurs who hire paid workers more than doubles that for own-account workers.