Estimating returns to education using twins in urban China

By Hongbin Li, Pak-wai Liu, Junsen Zhang. 2012

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Subfields: Demography, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/702f5db546650a7e2a857955bb4bcbbc8f688975

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In Demography

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2. J. Giles
3. You Zhang
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Citations in the corpus

• Education Development in China: Education Return, Quality, and Equity (2019, background): “In another empirical study on returns to education in urban China, Li, Liu and Zhang [37] first used ordinary least-squares to estimate the rate of return to years of schooling and showed the elasticity was 8.4%, while the return reduced to 3.8% when they estimated the return using twins data and wi”
• Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China* (2008, background): “Most studies suggest a significantly lower return to a year of high school education, and Li et al. (2012) even suggest that the return to high school in urban China was not significantly different from zero. Moreover, as documented by Meng and Zhang (2001), rural migrants faced limited opportunitie”