中国成人高等教育的劳动力市场回报——基于面板数据和事件研究方法的证据

Labor Market Returns on Adult Higher Education:An Empirical Analysis Based on Panel Event Studies

本文利用面板数据中劳动者教育水平的变动来识别成人高等教育,考察了成人高等教育对个体劳动力市场表现的影响。由于个体获得成人学历的时间存在差异,且成人高等教育回报可能具有异质性,本文同时使用双向固定效应模型和更稳健的渐进双重差分模型进行估计。结果表明,我国成人高等教育学历的工资回报率约为15%—19%,而且在样本期间呈总体上升趋势。成人高等教育学历还能提升就业概率,并有助于样本拥有相对较好的工作。

We examine the return to adult higher education using changes in the education level of workers in panel data.Since individuals differ in the timing of attaining the qualification and the returns may be heterogeneous,we apply both a two-way fixed effects model and staggered Difference-in-Difference models for estimation.The results show that the wage return to adult higher education in China is about 15to 19percent,and the positive effect has increased over time.Adult higher education also promotes employment and enables workers to work in relatively good occupations.