Returns to education in rural China

Zhao, Litao

doi:10.1007/s11516-007-0003-1

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“…Some existing literature estimate that the returns to education for the disabled and nondisabled, people with different type of disabilities [3] [4]. In China, enormous literature exist in the study of the returns to education in recent years, which including urban residents" rate of returns to education [5], rural residents" returns to education [6] [7], as well as returns to education of special groups, such as the floating population in urban and rural areas [8], minority [9]. However, more than 80 million disabilities have not yet been studied.…”

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Rate of Returns to Education of Persons with Disabilities in Rural China

Liao¹,

Zhao²

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Applied Social Science Research (ICASSR-2013)

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-The aim of this paper is to estimate the returns to education in the disable people in rural China in the past 20 years. The regression of Mincerian wage equation as the method is used, and the data is based on CHNS data in 1991-2009 survey. The results show that the education level has significant positive linear relationship with the rate of returns to education (RRE). The RRE for the rural disable people is lower than the RRE of the disabled in urban, which are 5.3% and 7.6%. The RRE of male disabled is higher than the RRE of female. Difference of RRE of disabled people between different regions are significant and East>West>Central is RRE orders in rural regions in China. The results imply that it is necessary to increase supply of special education to improve the education situation of the disabled in rural China and focus on the educational problem in the female disabled.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rate of Returns to Education of Persons with Disabilities in Rural China

Liao¹,

Zhao²

2013

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Applied Social Science Research (ICASSR-2013)

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“…A consistent high level of education holds a great significance among government officials and policymakers, as it is one of the main indicators of human capital and human development. The relationship between employment and human capital in the form of educational attainment has been studied by many social scientists and economists, where some of the researchers support the Human Capital Theory in the form of education (Kjelland, 2008 andPatrinos, 2004), while very few do not support it (Li, 2003;Litao, 2007;Xiu and Gunderson, 2013). Many past research studies have also found that increasing economic return and benefits to a high level of educational attainment can explain an important part of the story.…”

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A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Employment Returns to Education and Health Status in China: Moderating Role of Gender

Yahong

Khan

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Based on the nationally representative sample data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS-2015), this study examines the relationship of education levels and health status with an individual's probability of being employed in China. The findings obtained from the binary logistic regression estimator suggest that people with a higher level of education were more likely to be employed than those who have less or no education. The individual with university or above education was found to be 85% more likely to be employed than college or equal diploma holders. Further, the healthier individual was found to be 11% more likely to be employed than relatively less healthy. Moreover, the resulting coefficients obtained from the moderation effect suggest that all of the two-way interaction effects among health status and education levels with gender are not statistically significant even at the 10% level. The results suggest that there was no multiplicative effect of gender with health status and level of education on an individual's probability of being employed. Further, the study also suggests important policy implications in the light of China's active labor force market and the gender gap in employment.

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“…Liu finds that for Chinese peasants, "hukou" is the real standard to measure their actual status, benefits, etc. [33]. The easiest way to obtain an urban "hukou", however, is to marry a city man to follow their hukou.…”

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Chinese Rural Female Students’ Situation in Accessing to Education Resources

Huang¹,

Huang²,

Lin³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)

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This paper reviews and examines rural education's financial and family planning policies in China to explore the influencing factors of gender differences in education in China and the differences in access to educational resources between urban-rural female students. Below are three main arguments that this review show from three factors:(1) Finance: there are differences in the economic development level of each region in China, and insufficient educational investment issued by local governments restricts the development of rural schools. Meanwhile, elementary education resources and funds in China are allocated according to household registration, which also leads to the unfair developing opportunity for students; (2) Schools: due to unsafe risks caused by disadvantageous school locations, teachers' and textbooks' unbalanced care to boys' leadership, incomplete courses to support girls' art interests, these could cause negative impacts on cultivating characters and access to the educational resource for rural female students;(3) Family: under the influence of family planning disparity and boy preference, family is a significant factor in female students' education, especially for rural girls, who are facing more intense sibling competition than urban girls. Rural households are more willing to invest in boys' education, resulting in unequal educational resources due to gender inequality at the family level. This review also indicates the consequences of this phenomenon on rural female students in China: due to the lack of education, it is hard for them to realize their self-cognition and ideology, leading to early pregnancy, an unwanted marriage, and even mental illness. Therefore, it is important to further improve the female student's education, and it is worthy of our in-depth thinking.

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Returns to education in rural China

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Rate of Returns to Education of Persons with Disabilities in Rural China

Rate of Returns to Education of Persons with Disabilities in Rural China

A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Employment Returns to Education and Health Status in China: Moderating Role of Gender

Chinese Rural Female Students’ Situation in Accessing to Education Resources

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