Compulsory schooling system and equity in education: An analysis on intergenerational transmission of education

ABSTRACT: This paper uses the China Family Panel Studies’ micro-level data and the ordered logit model to study intergenerational transmission of education and examines whether the nine-year compulsory schooling system affects equity in education. The results show that when parents have higher educational attainments, their children will have higher educational attainments. Full-sample results show that when the mother has higher education, the probability that her children have higher education increases by 7.97%, whereas for the sub-sample after the compulsory schooling policy carried out, the probability increases by 22.42%. We find that the compulsory schooling system strengthens intergenerational transmission of education in the level of higher education. An implication is that the compulsory s

SUBMITTER: Chen Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10447920 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature