The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Schooling, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China.
We identify the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in educational attainment caused by exogenous city-wide disruptions to education during the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976. For city-cohorts who experienced greater disruptions, children’s educational...
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| Format: | Working paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank
2008
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