Economic returns to schooling in urban China, 1988 to 2001.

This study provides estimates of the returns to schooling in urban China over an extended period of economic reforms. We find a dramatic increase in the returns to education, from only 4.0 percent per year of schooling in 1988 to 10.2 percent in 2001. Most of the rise in the returns to education occ...

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Main Authors: Zhang, J, Zhao, Y, Park, A, Xiaoqing, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2005