教育回报率的家庭背景差异

Family Background Differences in Rates of Return to Education

教育回报率的家庭背景差异直接影响到个人教育决策和社会收入分配。有关教育回报率家庭背景差异的经验研究非常少,特别是来自中国的经验证据。本文提出,在传统社会走向现代社会以及经济转轨的背景下,由于劳动力市场不完善,高家庭背景子女的教育回报率仍然会高于低家庭背景子女的教育回报率。基于2008年中国综合社会调查(CGSS2008)数据库中劳动力市场样本,以父亲受教育程度、职业地位和政治面貌度量家庭背景,本文分组回归不同家庭背景子女的教育回报率,并且从更换代理变量、删除和拆分样本方面进行稳健性检验。研究最终证实了高家庭背景子女的教育回报率高于低家庭背景子女教育回报率。

Family background differences in rates of return to education plays an important role in education decision and income distribution.There is few empirical research on this topic,especially empirical evidence from China.This paper proposes hypothesis that as a society transiting from traditional society to modern one and a country with economy transition,the formal system hasn＇t been established yet and the family background still can gains benefits,then socio-economically advantaged children can gain higher rates of return to education than socio-economically disadvantaged children.On the basis of the labor market dataset in CGSS（Chinese General Social Survey）2008database,family background is measured by father＇s educational level,occupational and political status.This paper aims to investigate family background differences in rates of return to education and conducts robustness check by changing proxy variable,deleting and dividing the sample.Finally,this paper confirms the hypothesis.