Does vocational education pay off in China? Instrumental-variable quantile-regression evidence

Li Dai () and Pedro Martins
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Li Dai: School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London.

No 100, Working Papers from Queen Mary, University of London, School of Business and Management, Centre for Globalisation Research

Abstract: As China's economy evolves, vocational education may become more important.In this paper, we study the returns to secondary vocational education in China and their differences along the wage distribution. We also use instrumental variables, based on geographical and longitudinal changes in academic and vocational enrolment opportunities, to address the selection between the two types of education. We find that vocational education provides a wage premium vis-a-vis academic education of over 30% but only for individuals at the middle of the conditional wage distribution.

Keywords: return to education; vocational education; instrumental variables; quantile treatment effects. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C36 I25 I26 J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2020-04
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