Ren, Weiwei; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately … education in rural China is much higher for females than for males. Associated with this, the wage penalty where workers are … females in rural China. These findings are interpreted using the explanations offered for the gender differential in the …