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Three Essays On The High-Speed Rail Network In China, Shiyu Cheng
Three Essays On The High-Speed Rail Network In China, Shiyu Cheng
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
My dissertation consists of three essays that study the economic consequences of China’s high-speed rail (HSR) expansion.
In the first essay, I use the college admission cutoff scores to reveal students’ college preferences under the enrollment quota. By exploiting the quasi-experimental variation in whether or not college cities are connected by the HSR network, I document a two-point increase in the cutoff scores following a HSR station opening in the college city using difference-in-difference (DD) approach. Colleges in the megacities experience a larger increase in cutoff scores after the station opening. These findings suggest that the HSR network stimulates “brain …
Three Essays On The Economics Of Education Expansion, Xiaozhou Ding
Three Essays On The Economics Of Education Expansion, Xiaozhou Ding
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
My dissertation consists of three essays that study the unintended consequences of education policies. The first two essays examine the impact of higher education expansion in China on household saving rate and individual migration rate. The third essay looks into the impact of a school redistricting plan and the construction a new school on housing prices in Fayette County, Kentucky.
In the first essay, I utilize the large national expansion on higher education in China which exogenously increase the enrollment of college students, to estimate the induced change in the expected college probability and how it affects saving rates for …