Reconciling the returns to education in off-farm wage employment in rural China
Reconciling the returns to education in off-farm wage employment in rural China
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9361.2007.00376.x
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发表时间：
2008-02-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Rozelle, Scott
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作者：
de Brauw, Alan;Rozelle, Scott
此前的研究发现，中国农村的教育回报远低于其他发展中经济体的估计。在本文中，我们试图确定为什么之前的估计如此之低，并提供我们认为更准确的回报衡量标准的估计。 20 世纪 90 年代初期的平均回报率为 2.3%，而我们发现平均回报率为 6.4%。此外，我们发现年轻人、移民和小学后教育的回报更高。该论文表明，尽管我们的估计与之前的估计之间的部分差异可归因于 20 世纪 90 年代的回报增加，但更大一部分差异是由于数据的性质和其他作者使用的方法论造成的。
Previous studies have found that the returns to education in rural China are far lower than estimates for other developing economies. In this paper, we seek to determine why previous estimates are so low and provide estimates of what we believe are more accurate measures of the returns. Whereas estimates for the early 1990s average 2.3 percent, we find an average return of 6.4 percent. Furthermore, we find even higher returns among younger people, migrants, and for post-primary education. The paper demonstrates that, although part of the difference between our estimate and previous estimates can be attributed to increasing returns during the 1990s, a larger part of the difference is due to the nature of the data and the methodological approaches used by other authors.