ID | 168348 |
Title Proper | Impacts of education policies on intergenerational education mobility in China |
Language | ENG |
Author | Guo, Yumei |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper used the CHIP 2013 dataset to investigate the effects of two important education policies in China on intergenerational education mobility, including the Compulsory Education Law implemented in 1986 and college expansion policy (CEP) started from 1999. In general, our results reflect a relatively optimistic picture in urban China, but a less favorable pattern in rural areas. For the urban sample, both the Compulsory Education Law (CEL) and college expansion policy increase the probability of upward mobility at lower parental education level, and the college expansion policy further increases the intergenerational education mobility in urban China. In contrast, each of the two policies indeed reduces the intergenerational education mobility for the rural sample, and the effects found on upward mobility in urban China are non-existent for the rural sample. The unfavorable results in rural China can be attributed to poor enforcement of the policy or the lack of demand-side education reforms. |
`In' analytical Note | China Economic Review Vol.55 , Jun 2019: p. 124-142 |
Journal Source | China Economic Review 2019-06 |
Key Words | China ; Inequality ; Education Policies ; Intergenerational Education Mobility ; Upward Mobility |