Author: Yi FanPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Essays on Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in China
Author: Yi FanIntergenerational Income Mobility in China
Author: Yuna HouPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100047366X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Intergenerational income mobility is of great societal importance due to its relevance to equal socio-economic opportunity and future economic efficiency. In her book Dr Hou explores the potential role of education policy in reducing intergenerational transmission of poverty and promoting intergenerational income mobility in China. Her research investigates the extent to which intergenerational income persists in China, the mechanisms behind intergenerational inequality, and premises for policy intervention. The interaction between families, labour markets, and public policies that structure a child’s opportunities and determine the extent to which income is related to family background are discussed in detail. The book comprises of three separate empirical studies examining the relationship between parents’ income and the long-term welfare of their children for two birth cohorts; the role education plays in the intergenerational income relationship; and possible policy intervention channels to facilitate intergenerational income mobility. The lessons learnt from the empirical studies in this book offer the basis for a discussion of current educational policies and provide guidance for developing more appropriate public policies to promote intergenerational income mobility in China in the future. This book contributes to the international discussion by providing evidence in Chinese context, and also provides guidance for policymakers attempting to develop more appropriate public policies to promote intergenerational income mobility in China.
Essays on Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
Author: Christopher RauhPrecise Poverty Alleviation and Intergenerational Mobility in China
Author: Chunjin ChenPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000825132
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The widening of income and wealth inequality has become one of the most important obstacles on the road to China’s common prosperity. In the context of inequality reduction and anti-poverty strategy in China, this book investigates the complex relationship between education and intergenerational mobility in terms of occupation and income. Based on large-scale social survey data, cutting-edge econometric models and statistical methods, the book examines the role of education in breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty and promoting intergenerational mobility. It analyzes the characteristics of birth cohorts in intergenerational mobility, the long-term trends of educational, occupational, and income mobility among rural and urban residents across generations, and also the different regional patterns of intergenerational mobility against the background of social changes in China. Based on empirical findings, the author advances suggestions on an education policy conducive to poverty alleviation. The book will appeal to scholars and students studying the sociology of education, the economics of education and Chinese education, as well as policy makers interested in the topics of education policy systems and poverty alleviation, as well as education equity and social mobility.
Essays on Intergenerational Mobility
Author: Aiday SikhovaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The first chapter of the dissertation provides novel empirical evidence to disentangle the significance of parental income and parental education in determining children's human capital using Swedish administrative data. The second chapter shows that parents are an important mechanism driving income inequality among their children using survey data for Chinese child and adult twins.
Social Differentiation And Social Inequality
Author: James N BaronPublisher: Westview Press
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Reflects the current study of social stratification as it has been reshaped by recent developments in the analysis of macroeconomic, institutional, demographic, and ascriptive sources of inequality. In 11 essays sociologists look at such factors of differentiation as employment and income, education, infant mortality in China, the distribution of responsibility across gender, and the social construction of intelligence and gender barriers to it. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
THREE ESSAYS ON PUBLIC POLICIES AND INEQUALITY IN CHINA.
Author: Zhuo ZhangPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This dissertation contains three essays examining three influential public policies in China and their various outcomes over the last half-century. The first essay examines the quantity-quality trade-off induced by China's family control policy during the 1970s. Using two waves of Chinese census data, I find China's "Later, Longer, Fewer" policy from the 1970s significantly reduced fertility in the country. The second essay measures and examines the earning gaps among local urban workers and migrant workers using the 2002 China Household Income Project (CHIP2002) survey data. Relative to the urban workers, this study finds negative earning differentials and lower education returns among migrant workers. The third essay investigates the impacts of railway expansion in China on the urban-rural income gap over the last three decades. Using provincial panel data through a DID framework shows a positive relationship between railway expansion and improved urban-rural income inequality.
Three Essays on Intergenerational Mobility, Sex Ratios, and Marriage Market in China
Author: Yuan HuThree Essays on Intergenerational Mobility
Author: Minghao LiPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The study of intergenerational mobility has a long history in the social sciences. Previous studies have proposed various mobility concepts, striven to overcome empirical barriers to achieve accurate national measures, and mapped out cross-country patterns and time trends of mobility. The three essays in dissertation contribute to a recent strand of this literature which seeks to understand the mechanisms through which social status is transmitted across generations. After an overall introduction in chapter one, chapter two uses recently published county-level data to study the determinants of intergenerational mobility, measured by income levels and teen birth rates. Following Solons mobility model, we study the impacts of public investment in human capital, returns to human capital, and taxation. The results show that better school quality and higher returns to education increase adult incomes and reduce teen birth rates for children from low income families. By comparing counties within or adjacent to metropolitan areas to other counties, this study finds that urban upward mobility is sensitive to parents' education while non-urban upward mobility is sensitive to migration opportunities.Chapter three employs court-ordered School Finance Reforms (SFRs) as quasi-experiments to quantify the effects of education equity on intergenerational mobility within commuting zones. First, I use reduced form difference-in-difference analysis to show that 10 years of exposure to SFRs increases the average college attendance rate by about 5.2% for children with the lowest parent income. The effect of exposure to SFRs decreases with parent income and increases with the duration of exposure. Second, to directly model the causal pathways, I construct a measure for education inequity based on the association between school district education expenditure and median family income. Using exposure to SFRs as the instrumental variable, 2SLS analysis suggests that one standard deviation reduction in education inequality will cause the average college attendance rate to increase by 2.2% for children at the lower end of the parent income spectrum. Placing the magnitudes of these effects in context, I conclude that policies aimed at increasing education equity, such as SFRs, can substantially benefit poor children but they alone are not enough to overcome the high degree of existing inequalities.Chapter four studies the Intergenerational Persistence of Self-employment in China across the Planned Economy Era. It finds that children whose parents were self-employed before Chinas socialist transformation were more likely to become self-employed themselves after the economic reform even though they had no direct exposure to their parents businesses. The effect is found in both urban and rural areas, but only for sons. Furthermore, asset holding data indicate that households with self-employed parents before the socialist transformation were more risk tolerant. These findings suggest that the taste for self-employment is an important conduit of parents effects on self-employment, and that the taste being transferred can be mapped to known entrepreneurial attitudes.
Inequality of Opportunity
Author: Juan Gabriel RodríguezPublisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1780520344
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Eight papers, both theoretical and applied, on the concept of equality of opportunity which says that a society should guarantee its members equal access to advantage regardless of their circumstances, while holding them responsible for turning that access into actual advantage by the application of effort.