Senior high school education belongs to semipublic goods in China as the payout of senior high school is provided by public finance and market. Some key high schools ask for very high school-selection fee, which is a ...Senior high school education belongs to semipublic goods in China as the payout of senior high school is provided by public finance and market. Some key high schools ask for very high school-selection fee, which is a great burden on many families. And higher and higher school-selection fee is against social justice and endangers social environment＇s harmonious and steady. The paper analyzes the reasons and influences of school-selection fee, and points out some suggestions.展开更多
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...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.展开更多
文摘Senior high school education belongs to semipublic goods in China as the payout of senior high school is provided by public finance and market. Some key high schools ask for very high school-selection fee, which is a great burden on many families. And higher and higher school-selection fee is against social justice and endangers social environment＇s harmonious and steady. The paper analyzes the reasons and influences of school-selection fee, and points out some suggestions.
基金funding support by the National Science Foundation of China(71773074)the Shanghai Soong Ching Ling Foundation(Lu Jiaxian and Gao Wenying Special Foundation).
文摘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.
