China's College Expansion and the Timing of the College-to-Work Transition
A Natural Experiment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5741368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ling-Xin Hao (0000-0002-4694-0917, Johns Hopkins University), Lingxin Hao, Dong Zhang (0000-0003-3786-2272, Sun Yat-sen University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 688 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 93-114 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716220906791 |
| PMID | 32773820 |
| OpenAlex | W3017707357 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 14 |
This article examines the effect of China's 1999 acceleration of higher education expansion on when college graduates find their first skilled job. We use a natural experiment to test our hypotheses and exploit the unique education and work history data of a nationally representative survey, as well as estimate a causal inference model. We find that the 1999 education expansion caused a delay in the landing of a skilled job among graduates from technical colleges, while graduates from four-year colleges were not affected in job acquisition. We also find that family origins and individual social positions are significant determinants of who entered college both before and after the education expansion. These findings shed new light on the workings of early adulthood and on social inequality in China
China · Mathematics education · Natural (archaeology) · Natural experiment · Pedagogy · Physics · Political science · School-to-work transition · Statistics · Thermodynamics · Transition (genetics) · Work (physics) · Chemistry · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Higher Education Research Studies · History · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Law · Mathematics · Psychology
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Inverse probability weighted estimation for general missing data problems
Graduate Unemployment
The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects
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Multiple Imputation for Nonresponse in Surveys
Cumulative Advantage as a Mechanism for Inequality
Higher Education Expansion in China and the ‘Ant Tribe’ Problem
The household registration system and social stratification in China
Transitioning to Adulthood in Asia
Divergent Urban-rural Trends in College Attendance
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |