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Short-id: pzh150

Working Papers

2025

1. From Rural Schools to City Factories: Assessing the Quality of Chinese Rural Schools
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2023

2. Understanding Trends in Chinese Skill Premiums, 2007-2018
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)

2019

3. Employer Learning and the Dynamics of Returns to Universities: Evidence from Chinese Elite Education during University Expansion
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)

2015

4. General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle
   Economics Working Papers, Hoover Institution, Stanford University View citations (3)
   Also in VfS Annual Conference 2012 (Goettingen): New Approaches and Challenges for the Labor Market of the 21st Century, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association (2012) View citations (1)
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2011) View citations (75)
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER (2011) View citations (74)
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2011) View citations (79)
   See also Journal Article General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Lifecycle, Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press (2017) View citations (208) (2017)

2006

5. Quality-Consistent Estimates of International Returns to Skill
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (77)

Journal Articles

2017

1. General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Lifecycle
   Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52, (1), 48-87 View citations (208)
   See also Working Paper General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle, Economics Working Papers (2015) View citations (3) (2015)

2015

2. Public education spending and private substitution in urban China
   Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 115, (C), 124-139 View citations (28)

2013

3. Effects of college educational debt on graduate school attendance and early career and lifestyle choices
   Education Economics, 2013, 21, (2), 154-175 View citations (14)

2012

4. Classroom peer effects and academic achievement: Evidence from a Chinese middle school
   China Economic Review, 2012, 23, (2), 223-237 View citations (45)
5. Intergenerational Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Attainment
   Journal of Law and Economics, 2012, 55, (2), 437 - 476 View citations (10)

2009

6. A value-added estimate of higher education quality of US states
   Education Economics, 2009, 17, (4), 469-489 View citations (6)
7. Quality-Consistent Estimates of International Schooling and Skill Gradients
   Journal of Human Capital, 2009, 3, (2), 107-143 View citations (69)
8. The effects of welfare reform on the academic performance of children in low-income households
   Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2009, 28, (4), 577-599 View citations (19)

2008

9. Political economy of income distribution dynamics
   Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 87, (1), 119-139 View citations (15)