THESIS
2016
x, 143 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Abstract
People’s access to education, especially quality education, exerts a profound influence
on later life chances. In these three essays, using the newly available data from
school-based education panel surveys, I first examine the causal impacts of different
migration processes on a wide variety of developmental outcomes for rural-origin
children; and then focus on the hukou-based school segregation and its impact on the
achievement gap between migrant and local children in urban China; lastly,
investigate the linkage between the dynamic change of people’s non-cognitive
abilities during college and their labor market performance after graduation. Findings
in this dissertation contribute to our understanding of the formation, maintenance, and
consequences of educational inequality...[
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People’s access to education, especially quality education, exerts a profound influence
on later life chances. In these three essays, using the newly available data from
school-based education panel surveys, I first examine the causal impacts of different
migration processes on a wide variety of developmental outcomes for rural-origin
children; and then focus on the hukou-based school segregation and its impact on the
achievement gap between migrant and local children in urban China; lastly,
investigate the linkage between the dynamic change of people’s non-cognitive
abilities during college and their labor market performance after graduation. Findings
in this dissertation contribute to our understanding of the formation, maintenance, and
consequences of educational inequality in contemporary China.
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