Tuition Fees for Higher Education and Intergenerational Mobility in China

• 作者: Kun Wu Quanlin Liu Yuanyuan Chen
• 来源期刊: 中国经济学前沿
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（3）
• 所属期刊栏目: Research Article
• 页码范围: 396-432
• 页数: 37页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.3868/s060-011-020-0016-1

摘要

This paper studies the impact of an increase in higher education tuition on intergenerational mobility in China.We develop a theoretical model for the parental decision about the investment on education of children to illustrate the impact from the perspective of borrowing constraint.We consider the Chinese college tuition and subsidy reform around 1986 as a quasi-natural experiment for identifying the policy effect of the reform on intergenerational educational mobility.by using the data from the census of 2000 and the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS).We find that an increase in the education burden induced by the reform of college tuition has reduced intergenerational educational mobility,and it is more noticeable in regions with a relatively higher increment in the tuition fee.Our results are robust with consideration of the co-residence bias,government investment in elementary education,and the higher education expansion.

作者信息

序号	姓名	单位	发文数	被引次数	H指数	G指数
1	Yuanyuan Chen		1	0	0.0	0.0
2	Quanlin Liu		1	0	0.0	0.0
3	Kun Wu		1	0	0.0	0.0