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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 …