Title :
Matching Estimates of the Effect of College Attendance on Individual Income
Author :
Fan, Min ; Zhang, Jiaping ; Chen, Qianqin
Author_Institution :
Res. Center of Financial Eng., South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou
Abstract :
The central purpose of this article is to estimate the average treatment effect for students that attended colleges or universities on career outcomes. We compare the use of OLS regression and propensity score matching methods, and incorporate the role of ldquocommon support.rdquo Using data from the CHFLS Survey, we estimate career outcomes. Results suggest that the return to higher education has increased substantially in China, especially compared to those measured in the 1980psilas and the 1990psilas.
Keywords :
education; socio-economic effects; average treatment effect; career outcomes; college attendance; individual income; matching estimates; propensity score matching method; Business; Education; Educational institutions; Educational products; Engineering profession; Information management; Least squares approximation; Productivity; Remuneration; Seminars; average treatment effect; heterogeneity; propensity score matching; return to education;
Conference_Titel :
Business and Information Management, 2008. ISBIM '08. International Seminar on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3560-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISBIM.2008.234
