Labour Market Impacts of School Expenditure and Class Size: Evidence from China

Dong Guo

Journal of Development Studies, 2018, vol. 54, issue 7, 1137-1153

Abstract: This study is a first attempt to estimate the impact of school resources on students’ subsequent labour market earnings in China. Combining unprecedented school data from the early 1950s to the 1990s with household survey data in the 2000s, this paper documents that expenditure-per-pupil, a proxy measure of school resources (or quality) has a significant impact on the level of subsequent earnings through its influence on education returns. The positive effect calls for policy intervention aimed at improving education, to be based on the perceived economic return to the quantity as well as the quality components of education.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1366451

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