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CCCI: Access to Elite Education, Wage Premium and Social Mobilty: The Truth and Illusion of China's College Entrance Exam
The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative Lecture Series, featuring interdisciplinary talks by scholars on issues in China today, runs every Monday this semester. This talk will be presented by Professor Ruixue Jia, Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Global Policy & Strategy, UC San Diego
When:
October 31, 2016 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Where
This talk examines the returns to elite education and their implications on elite formation and social mobility, exploiting an open elite education recruitment system -- China's College Entrance Exam. We conduct annual national surveys of around 40,000 college graduates during 2010-2015 to collect their performance at the entrance exam, job outcomes, and other individual characteristics. Exploiting a discontinuity in the probability of attending elite universities around the cutoff scores, we find a sizable wage premium of elite education. However, access to elite education does not promise one's entry into the elite class (measured by occupation, industry and other non-wage benefits) but parents' elite status does. Access to elite education also does not alter the intergenerational link between parents' status and children's status. The wage premium appears more consistent with the signaling mechanism of elite education than the role of human capital or social networks.
This lecture is co-sponsored by Cornell Institute for China Economic Research.
Cost:
Free
Phone Number:
607-255-4195
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