The Cultural Revolution and returns to schooling in China: Estimates based on twins

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Zhang, Junsen; Liu, Pak-Wai; Yung, Linda
• 署名单位: Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2006.12.006
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 631-639
• 关键词: the Cultural Revolution; twins; returns to schooling; CHINA

摘要

This paper investigates the returns to schooling in China for the Cultural Revolution (CR) cohort and the non-CR cohort using a new set of Chinese twins data. Applying the fixed-effects model on twins data, which helps to control for the genetic and family background effects, this paper examines whether the CR cohort has smaller economic returns to schooling than the non-CR cohort. The empirical results in this paper indicate that the Cultural Revolution has not played a significantly adverse role in the returns to schooling. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.