Chinese residents' environmental concern and expectation of sending children to study abroad.

ABSTRACT: The majority of existing studies find that Chinese residents would like to send children to study abroad for higher education quality and multiple opportunities. Previous studies have paid little attention to the association of this issue with environmental degradation in recent years. Merging data on adults from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) in 2016 with data on children, this paper investigates the effect of environmental concern on the educational level at which Chinese residents are willing to send children to study abroad based on the ordered logit model and Heckman Probit Model (HPM). The results show that environmental concern predicted a positive attitude toward a willingness to send children to study abroad at a decreased schooling level after concerns about the Chinese ed

SUBMITTER: Yang T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7508386 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature