从农村职业教育看人力资本对农村家庭的贡献--基于苏北农村家庭微观数据的实证分析

Effects of Rural Vocational Education on the Income of Rural Households——An Empirical Study of Rural Households in Northern Jiangsu Province

农村市场对扩大内需、保持中国经济增长起着至关重要的作用。增加农民收入无疑有助于扩大农村需求,而农民收入若要持续稳定地增长,农村教育,特别是农村的职业教育必须发挥不可或缺的作用。本文从农村职业教育回报的角度讨论农村职业教育对农村家庭收入的重要贡献。尽管国内外众多学者对教育的回报问题进行了广泛研究,但对我国农村职业教育回报的量化讨论似乎并不多见。本文着眼于农村职业教育对农村家庭收入的影响,通过数据调研来实证分析并讨论农村职业教育的意义。本文的稳健研究结论显示,基于个体是否接受职业教育存在自选性的事实,农村职业教育对于农村家庭收入有着显著的作用,平均回报率约为27%(年平均回报率9%),与国际上10%的年平均回报率基本一致。

This paper discusses the contribution of human capital to the income of rural households by studying the return of rural vocational education. It is well known that education has been a hot topic of labor economics for decades, and there is a large literature on this subject, such as the return of university education, the return of adult reemployment training and so on. However, the discussion on the return of vocational education in countryside is seldom seen in empirical research. This paper is exactly an empirical analysis of the contribution of this kind of education in countryside to rural households. Based on the survey data of 416 farmer households in the northern Jiangsu Province, by applying the treatment effect model, we find that the return which the vocational education brings for the rural households is around 27 %, which shows that the vocational education can definitely increase rural households＇ income.