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Can educational expansion improve income inequality in China? : evidences from the CHNS 1997 and 2006 data
Ning, Guangjie - 2010
Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected in 1997 and 2006, this paper studies how … effect. In explaining the earning gap in China, the price effect is more important than the population effect. The labor …
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Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel; Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, … - 2021
This paper uses factor models to identify and estimate distributions of counterfactuals. We extend LISREL frameworks to a dynamic treatment effect setting, extending matching to account for unobserved conditioning variables. Using these models, we can identify all pairwise and joint treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319958
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Estimating distributions of treatment effects with an application to the returns to schooling and measurement of the effects of uncertainty on college choice
Carneiro, Pedro; Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James J. - 2003 - This draft, January 22, 2003
This paper uses factor models to identify and estimate distributions of counterfactuals. We extend LISREL frameworks to a dynamic treatment effect setting, extending matching to account for unobserved conditioning variables. Using these models, we can identify all pairwise and joint treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573446
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Can educational expansion improve income inequality? : evidences from the CHNS 1997 and 2006 data
Ning, Guangjie - In: Economic systems 34 (2010) 4, pp. 397-412
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Short-term Gains, Long-term Loss : Unintended Effects of China's Land Reform on Education and Labor Market Outcomes
Hu, Zhi-an - 2020
China's land reform during 1978 to 1984 has brought about dramatic changes to rural population. This paper presents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012845815
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The wage effects of polytechnic degrees : evidence from the 1999 China higher education expansion
Dai, Li; Martins, Pedro S. - 2024
wage effect in China, drawing on an unprecedented higher education expansion initially focused on universities and only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014483883
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Marginal returns to schooling and sducation policy change in Japan
Kikuchi, Nobuyoshi - 2017
This paper examines the returns to university education in Japan, using tuition, availability of universities, and labor market conditions as instrumental variables. To measure availability of universities, this paper uses total accredited capacity of all universities in the prefecture of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628420
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Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers
Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008 - Revised version
This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place. In order to tackle the issues...
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The long-term effects of long terms compulsory schooling reforms in Sweden
Fischer, Martin; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2017
We evaluate the impact on earnings, pensions, and further labor market outcomes of two parallel educational reforms increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the annual term length and compulsory schooling by comparable amounts. We find striking differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011779233
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The long-term effects of long terms : compulsory schooling reforms in Sweden
Fischer, Martin; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2018
We evaluate the impact on earnings, pensions, and further labor market outcomes of two parallel educational reforms increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the annual term length and compulsory schooling by comparable amounts. We find striking differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868372