Human-Capital Externalities in China

Edward Glaeser and Ming Lu

No 24925, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper provides evidences of heterogeneous human-capital externality using CHIP 2002, 2007 and 2013 data from urban China. After instrumenting city-level education using the number of relocated university departments across cities in the 1950s, one year more city-level education increases individual hourly wage by 22.0 percent, more than twice the OLS estimate. Human-capital externality is found to be greater for all groups of urban residents in the instrumental variable estimation.

JEL-codes: E02 H23 J0 J24 P20 R11 R19 R39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lma, nep-tra and nep-ure
Note: PE
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (19)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w24925.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:24925

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.nber.org/papers/w24925

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().