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Three Essays On College Earnings Premium And China’S Higher Education Expansion, Chenxu Hu
Three Essays On College Earnings Premium And China’S Higher Education Expansion, Chenxu Hu
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
My dissertation consists of three essays that study the college premium in China and how it has been affected by China’s higher education expansion.
In the first essay, I utilize the high education expansion as exogenous source to estimate the college premium. The rapidly changing access to college provides a rare opportunity to estimate a local treatment effect (LATE) of college education on earnings by utilizing the drastic increase in college admission rate in 1999. I also utilize the yearly admission rate as an instrumental variable for the endogenous college education. Using China Household Income Project 2013, the two IV …