【题  目】The Long-term Impact of Higher Education: Evidence from the Gaokao Reinstate-ment in China

【时  间】2023年6月1日（周四） 14:30-16:00

【地  点】后主楼1610、腾讯会议：930-400-910

【主讲人】张可心 助理教授（中国人民大学农业与农村发展学院）

【主持人】徐  慧 副教授（北京师范大学经济与工商管理学院）

摘要：Whereas there is a large literature evaluating the impacts of education, most of the focus has been on getting to universal primary enrollment and understanding the returns to basic education; but it misses the major shifts towards higher education in many fast-growing parts of the developing world over the last 20 years. In this paper, I study the returns to higher education in China using the reinstatement of the National College Entrance Examination in 1977 as a natural experiment, investigating the causal impacts of higher education on later life outcomes and well-being. Through a combination of regression discontinuity and difference-in-difference methods, I find that cohorts that were more likely to complete high school and obtain a college education as a result of the reform were no more likely to be employed, but were more likely to have a high-socioeconomic (SES) occupation in their early 30s, and lesser of the same in their 40s. Cohorts with higher education work for fewer days in a week, and, on average, earn a higher monthly income by 56 percent in their late 40s.

报告人简介：

    张可心，中国人民大学农业与农村发展学院助理教授，美国波士顿大学经济学博士，研究方向包括发展经济学、应用微观经济学等，主要关注高等教育的回报、女性赋权、基础设施建设经济效益等问题。已有成果在2021年东北部大学发展经济学会议、第15届北美城市经济学会议、国际健康协会年会、美国人口协会年会等国际会议上展示，已有论文发表于JMIR Research Protocols等期刊