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Intergenerational transmission of education in China: New evidence from the Chinese Cultural Revolution
dc.contributor.authorChen, Yanbin
dc.contributor.authorGuo, Yumei
dc.contributor.authorHuang, Jingyi
dc.contributor.authorSong, Yang
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-12T20:22:55Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T15:06:24Zen
dc.date.issued2019-02
dc.identifier.citationChen, Yanbin; Guo, Yumei; Huang, Jingyi; Song, Yang (2019). "Intergenerational transmission of education in China: New evidence from the Chinese Cultural Revolution." Review of Development Economics 23(1): 501-527.
dc.identifier.issn1363-6669
dc.identifier.issn1467-9361
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/147763
dc.description.abstractThis paper estimates the effect of parental education on children’s education by using instruments generated by the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and further explores the mechanisms of this causal relationship. Several important findings stand out from our empirical analyses. We find a larger intergenerational persistence in education for higher level in urban areas but for a lower level of education in rural areas. The main results from instrumental variable estimation show that the nurture effect is larger and more significant for fathers than for mothers. A deeper investigation of the mechanism behind this nurture effect informs us that a father’s education passes on to his children’s education partly through the income channel. Another notable finding is that even after controlling for fathers’ income, parental education still has a significantly positive effect on children’s education through the nurture effect. This indicates that beyond the income channel, there may exist other channels such as better home environment, which deserve to be explored in future research.
dc.publisherThe Danish National Centre for Social Research
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.
dc.subject.othernurture effect
dc.subject.otherintergenerational education mobility
dc.subject.otherinequality
dc.subject.otherChina
dc.titleIntergenerational transmission of education in China: New evidence from the Chinese Cultural Revolution
dc.typeArticleen_US
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dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelEconomics
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelBusiness and Economics
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Reviewed
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dc.identifier.doi10.1111/rode.12558
dc.identifier.sourceReview of Development Economics
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