Economic returns to schooling in urban China, 1988 to 2001

By Junsen Zhang, Yaohui Zhao, A. Park, Xiaoqing Song. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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5. Binzhen Wu
6. Junsen Zhang
7. Xinzheng Shi
8. Pak-wai Liu

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2. Junsen Zhang
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Citations in the corpus

• Labor Migration, Human Capital Agglomeration and Regional Development in China (2012, unknown): “That same period was marked by an increasing awareness of the value of knowledge and skills; as shown in Zhang et al. (2005), the return to schooling in Chinese cities rose from about 4% in 1988 to 10% in 2001, with most of the rise occurring post-1992.”
• Does Attending Elite Colleges Pay in China (2012, result): “Earlier studies (Li and Zhang, 1998; Fleisher and Wang, 2005; Yang, 2005) find that the returns to education were low in the 1980s and 1990s, but more recent investigations (e.g. Zhang et al., 2005) find that the returns to education in urban China increased dramatically by 2002.”
• Sex Ratios and Crime: Evidence from China (2013, methodology): “For instance, for a 30-year-old man in Beijing in 2000, we use the number of men 28 to 32 years old of urban status in Beijing to the number of women 26 to 30 years old of urban 14 For further description of these surveys, see, Zhang et al. (2005). status in Beijing in the 2000 census.”
• Intergenerational Income Mobility in Urban China (2012, background): “If the rate of return to human capital changes significantly over time, as has occurred in China (Meng and Kidd, 1997; Zhang et al., 2005; Meng et al., 2009), we will mis-estimate the different cohorts’ lifetime income.”
• Rising Wages: Has China Lost its Global Labor Advantage? (2010, unknown): “Indeed, the rate of return to education in urban China has increased from only 3-4% per year of schooling in the late 1980s to above 10% in recent years (e.g., Yang, 2005; Zhang et al., 2005).”
• The Returns to Education in China: Evidence from the 1986 Compulsory Education Law (2012, unknown): “Zhang et al. (2005) find returns to education increasing from 4 percent in 1988 to 10.2 percent in 2001.”
• Estimating returns to education using twins in urban China (2012, methodology): “We agree that the return was low when the Chinese economy was under a planned regime and is likely to rise as the economy becomes more market-oriented (see, for example, Heckman and Li, 2004; Zhang et al., 2005), but argue that economic transition may not be the whole story. In fact, the returns to ”
• Human capital and income inequality* (2018, background): “From the late 1980s to the mid-2010s, it increased from 0.34 to 0.51 in the PRC, from 0.38 to 0.45 in Indonesia, and from 0.28 to 0.31 in the Republic of Korea.”
• Reconciling the Returns to Education in Off-Farm Wage Employment in Rural China (2007, unknown): “…the returns to education exhibit some convexity, which is consistent with findings of other authors who have looked for non-linearities in the returns to education in other developing countries (e.g. Strauss and Thomas, 1995; Duflo, 2001) and in urban China (Li, 2001; Zhang et al., 2005).”
• Human Capital Development (2010, unknown): “…2007), and various countries in the European Union (Strauss and de la Maisonneuve 2007); (ii) developing countries like India (Duraisamy 2002), the People’s Republic of China (Li et al. 2005, Zhang et al. 2005), and Bangladesh (Asadullah 2006); and (iii) various African countries (Schultz 2004).”
• Economic transition, higher education and worker productivity in China (2011, background): “…is considerable evidence from estimation ofMincerianmodels that returns to schooling in China have increased in the past 15 years from far below world averages and now approach those observed in major market economies (Li, 2003; Li and Luo, 2004;Wang et al., 2009; Yang, 2002; Zhang et al., 2005).”
• The End of Cheap Chinese Labor (2012, unknown): “We replicate Zhang et al. (2005) in calculating a Mincer-style rate of return to education—that is, using wages as a dependent variable, and level of education and work experience as the key explanatory variables—but use the Urban Household Survey sample, which covers more provinces and a longer tim”