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The Intergenerational Effect of the Chinese Cultural Revolution on Education

作者: 发布时间:2014-12-18 点击数:
主讲人: Guochang Zhao
主讲人简介:
 Research Institute of Economics and Management
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
 
主持人: Luhang Wang
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Abstract:
This paper aims to examine the causal effec of parental education on children's education. Parents and their children share many common characteristics which are often unobserved --- this causes the omitted-variable bias. To eliminate this bias, we use school interruption during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (CR) as an instrument. The Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) significantly interrupted one generation's education, but has had no direct effect on the next generation. The empirical results suggest that in urban China, a one year decrease in parent's schooling because of school interruption during the CR leads to a 0.27-0.38 year decrease in the child's schooling; if a parent did not obtain a university degree because of school interruption during the CR, the child is 35-53 percent less likely to obtain a university degree. The results also suggest that maternal education may have a greater influence on children's education than paternal education. Overall, for the particular group whose education was changed by the CR, this paper confirms a significant and sizable causal effect on their children's education.
时间:2014-12-18(星期四)16:30-18:00
地点:N303 经济楼/Economics Building
讲座语言:English
主办单位:WISE-SOE
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期数:“WISE-SOE”2014秋季学期“高级经济学系列讲座”第十六讲(总第337讲)--应用微观领域
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