The Returns to Education in China: Evidence from the 1986 Compulsory Education Law

By H. Fang, K. Eggleston, John A. Rizzo, Scott Rozelle, Richard J. Zeckhauser. 2012

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Education and gender role attitudes (2020, background): “Fang et al. (2012) and Xie and Mo (2014) apply a dichotomous measure of policy exposure to estimate the effects of education on income and health.”
Improving Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: Lessons from Rigorous Evaluations (2014, background): “Fang et al. (2012) found that a similar law in China raised average educational attainment by about .8 years of schooling. schools a 45-minute scripted lesson on the average wages of individuals with different levels of schooling and the availability and costs of high schools in their province.”
Human capital and income inequality* (2018, background): “Since the mid-1990s, the average returns on an additional year of schooling have increased significantly in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) (Fleisher and Wang 2004; Zhang et al. 2005; Fang et al. 2012).”