教育的代际传递：来自中国农村的证据.pdfVIP

2009 年中国经济学年会投稿论文? 领域：劳动经济学 教育的代际传递：来自中国农村的证据 【摘要】通过以在20 世纪 70 年代初在农村开始的基础教育普及运动作为父母教育的 工具变量，使用由中国社会科学院经济研究所收入分配课题组(CHIP) 于 2003 年春天调查的 具有全国代表性的截面数据，本文分析了父母教育和孩子教育水平的因果关联。研究发现， 母亲的教育年限对孩子接受至少 10 年以上教育有显著的正的作用，而父亲的教育的影响则 是不确定的。进一步的分析发现母亲教育对儿子的教育的影响显著，而母亲教育对女儿教育、 父亲教育对儿子和女儿的教育作用都不确定。 关键词：教育的代际传递；父母教育；孩子教育 作者信息：齐豪，厦门大学王亚南经济研究院助理教授。李云森，厦门大学王亚南经 济研究院博士生， Email:lyunsen@ 。 作者感谢李实教授的数据支持，感谢厦门大学王亚南经济研究院（WISE ）相关老师和 同学的讨论和建议。文责自负。 The Intergenerational Education Transmission in Rural China Hau Chyi and Li Yunsen (Wangyanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University) The intergenerational human capital mobility is an important issue.Parents with higher education have higher earnings can provide more supports for their children. As a result, childrens education can also be higher than others. Studies found that parents with higher education levels are indeed associated with children with higher education levels, and parents with higher education in terms of number of years will also have children with more years of education. However, the significant and positive relationship in the levels of education between parents and children dose not necessarily imply causal effects. For example, abilities and other unobserved inherited factors can be the cause of this positive relationship. In this study, we investigate the causal relationship between parents and childrens education levels. The sample in this study comes from China Household Income Project (2002). To control for unobserved ability biases, we use the education expansion during the Culture Revolution in rural China as an instrument for parental education. We find some strong causal relationship of levels of education between pare