The Effects of Peer Parental Education on Student Achievement in Urban China: The Disparities Between Migrants and Locals

Kim, Jin Ho; Tong, Yuying; Sun, Skylar Biyang

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“…W 1 h also includes gender and education fixed effects (FE) for the household head. The household head level of education serves as a proxy for parental education, which has been shown to be an important predictor of children educational achievements (Guryan et al, 2008;Björklund and Salvanes, 2011;Kim et al, 2021). δ d is a set of district FE to control for fixed district characteristics that may affect the education level of individuals or their employment outcomes.…”

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Essays on Applied Microeconomics

Bernabé

2024

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My dissertation consists of three chapters in the area of applied microeconomics. The first chapter, written jointly with Tanjim Hossain and Haomiao Yu, investigates how strategic concerns and preferences for honesty affect people’s actions using two games. Two players simultaneously make reimbursement claims for the price of a damaged product, where reimbursements depend on players’ claims but not the actual price. In the game Regular, players’ best responses depend on their beliefs about others’ choices and both making the lowest claim is the unique equilibrium. The game Upward is dominance solvable and both making the highest claim the unique equilibrium. Yet, our experimental results show that players’ choices are significantly affected by the price in both games, with a larger impact in Regular. We need both strategic considerations and preferences for honesty to explain these findings. More players can be categorized as honest in Regular than in Upward and more as strategic in Upward than in Regular. Preferences for honesty lead to better coordination and increased earnings among players in Regular. The second chapter studies the impact of news coverage on women’s job mobility rates at the county level in the United States, exploiting the exogenous variation provided by the MeToo Movement. The average tone of news coverage at the county level is measured using novel data on sexual assault news coverage with natural language processing for categorizing the lexical choice of articles. The results show that the MeToo induced tone change of news coverage has a statistically significant impact on women’s propensity to switch jobs. In particular, increasing the tone change by one standard deviation decreases the job mobility rate of women by 12.8 percent. Additionally, the tone change of sexual assault news coverage does have a statistically significant impact on the labour market mobility of men in the sample with a different magnitude compared to women. There is no evidence that other news events, such as news on property crimes, have an impact on the job-to-job transition rates of women. The results suggest that the impact of sexual assault news coverage on women’s labour market decisions is amplified by the MeToo movement, especially when the information about sexual assaults is conveyed more positively compared to pre-MeToo Movement. The third chapter, written jointly with Boubacar Diop, Martino Pelli and Jeanne Tschopp, studies the long-run impacts of unexpected interruptions in regular schooling. Using storms as an exogenous shock, we examine how compulsory schooling disruptions affect educational attainments and the type of activity performed by individuals in young adulthood. We construct a unique continuous measure of childhood exposure to storms that varies by birth-year cohort and district for young adults in rural and urban India. We find that storms have substantial disruptive impacts on education. In the districts exposed to the most powerful winds, the estimates imply that children are 9% more likely to accumulate an educational delay and 6.5% less likely to obtain higher levels of education (beyond secondary school). In the long run, these delays have an impact on the type of labor market activity that these individuals perform. Using childhood exposure to storms as an instrument, we find that a one-year educational delay leads to a 42.6% drop in the probability of accessing regular salaried jobs. We determine that the impact of storms on education works through a permanent negative income shock.

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Essays on Applied Microeconomics

Bernabé

2024

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“…Meanwhile, the urban-rural dual structure based on the hukou system leads to a general urban-rural social stratification, which exacerbates inequalities in urban-rural educational development through the inheritance of family education, access to schooling, and the acquisition of social capital [ 34 ]. The relatively advantaged class living in urban areas has more educational opportunities and quality educational resources, while the disadvantaged rural groups are often excluded [ 19 , [35] , [36] , [37] ]. In the context of decentralized education administration, economic differences often reflect the gaps in social infrastructure support [ 11 , 38 ].…”

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Regional inequality in China's educational development: An urban-rural comparison

Guo,

2024

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“…The two main factors in Kim, Tong, and Sun's research are living and learning environments. They argue that students' academic achievement and educational aspirations are closely related to a high proportion of peers from a higher social background when entering a school instead of their socioeconomic status [13]. According to a survey about Chinese parents' awareness of educating their children, different families' backgrounds would lead to different educational expectations [14].…”

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The Impact of Social Statuses on Education in Chinese Society

Bingrui

Liang

2023

LNEP

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Diverse and complex influencing factors affect the level of education in China; however, few studies show the relationship between social class and education level. In order to further explore the influencing factors of education level, this study focuses on the influence of social class on educational experiences. A method of quantitative questionnaires is used as the research methodology. The main finding of this study is: a correlation exists between educational level and social status, both in terms of individual and general public perceptions. Based on the finding, some future research directions in the field of education can be considered. This study also tries to propose limitations of the survey: a lack of abundant participants and a clear definition of education level. Previous studies directly examined the relationship between social status and educational experiences. This current study further provides a new perspective on equality education and inspires future research on equalizing social distributions.

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The Effects of Peer Parental Education on Student Achievement in Urban China: The Disparities Between Migrants and Locals

Cited by 23 publications

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Essays on Applied Microeconomics

Essays on Applied Microeconomics

Regional inequality in China's educational development: An urban-rural comparison

The Impact of Social Statuses on Education in Chinese Society

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