Does affirmative action in Chinese college admissions lead to mismatch? Educational quality and the relative returns to a baccalaureate degree for minorities in China

Abstract This paper utilizes data from the 2002 Chinese Household Income Project to estimate the labor market return to graduating from college relative to high school. Parameter estimates of heterogeneous treatment effects reveal that for minorities, the average treatment effect of earning a baccal...

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Main Authors: Sai Ding, Samuel L. Myers, Gregory N. Price
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-12-01
Series:International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41257-017-0006-7