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Providing the right skills to all in China : from "made in China" to "created in China"
Molnár, Margit; Koen, Vincent - 2015
, the quality of most patents is still low and innovation output is weak. Reforms are underway to address these problems but … nurturing research and innovation. This Working Paper relates to the 2015 OECD Economic Survey of China www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-china.htm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399425
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The returns to schooling in rural China : evidence from the Cultural Revolution education expansion
Sicular, Terry; Juan, Yang - 2015
During the Cultural Revolution China embarked on a remarkable, albeit temporary, expansion of post-primary education in rural areas. This education expansion affected tens of millions of children who reached secondary school age in the late 1960s and 1970s. Exploiting the education expansion and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496127
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The impact of an un(der)funded inclusive education policy: evidence from the 2013 China Education Panel Survey
Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu; Xu, Lei - 2021
Using the 2013 China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), we study the impact of a 2008 inclusive education policy, through which the central government mandated urban public schools to exempt migrant children from tuition and temporary schooling fees. Whereas the non-disclosure rule regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583550
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Public education expenditure, institution development, and regional innovations : an empirical evidence from China
Li, Chenhui; Lian, Xubei; Zhang, Zhi - 2018
This paper investigates the relationship between government education expenditure and regional innovation, a key engine … well as their interaction with education expenditure on regional innovation levels. By employing a sample of provincial … innovation levels, an effect most pronounced in the Western provinces of China. Their analysis also revealed that financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809877
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Structured Uncertainty : A Pilot Study on Innovation in China's Mobile Phone Handset Industry
Tang, Li - 2015
, Chinese non-state firms have chosen a pattern of incremental innovation in their search for competitive advantage. Despite … falling outside central government innovation plans and engaging in practices inimical to nurturing novel product innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018100
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Rates of return to university education: the regression discontinuity design
Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Wei, Zhichao; Zhao, Guochang - 2010
Estimating the rate of return to a university degree has always been difficult due to the problem of omitted variable biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the University Admission system in China, which has clear cutoffs for university entry, combined with a unique data set with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269553
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Rates of return to university education : the regression discontinuity design
Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Wei, Zhichao; Zhao, Guochang - 2010
Estimating the rate of return to a university degree has always been difficult due to the problem of omitted variable biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the University Admission system in China, which has clear cutoffs for university entry, combined with a unique data set with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939256
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Sibling Rivalry : Evidence from China's Compulsory Schooling Reform
Fang, Guanfu; Chen, Yu - 2021
This study investigates the causal effect of older siblings’ schooling on their younger siblings’ schooling and labor market outcomes by exploiting the temporal and geographical variations in the implementation of compulsory schooling laws in China. Reform exposure is quantified as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223408
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The big expansion of rural secondary schooling during the cultural revolution and the returns to education in rural China
Zhu, Mengbing; Sicular, Terry - 2022
During the Cultural Revolution China embarked on a dramatic, albeit temporary, expansion of secondary education in rural areas that affected tens of millions of children who reached secondary school age in the late 1960s and 1970s. The conventional wisdom is that this expansion was politicized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013390935
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Rates of Return to University Education: the Regression Discontinuity Design
Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Wei, Zhichao; Zhao, Guochang - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010
Estimating the rate of return to a university degree has always been difficult due to the problem of omitted variable biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the University Admission system in China, which has clear cutoffs for university entry, combined with a unique data set with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008515762