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Direct linkJinqiu Jiang; Sun Yee Yip – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
The teacher shortage is a critical issue in many rural areas around the world. This paper presents the findings of two studies that investigated the impact of financial incentives on teacher attraction and retention in rural schools in Western China. Using the theory of compensating wage differentials and a mixed-method approach, we found that…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Rural Schools, Educational Policy, Teacher Recruitment
Po Yang – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
The massification of higher education has dramatically changed the association between credentials and jobs in advanced countries, while its impacts in transitional economies have received less academic attention. To address this research lacuna, the paper utilizes rich information from China's national surveys of college graduates from 2003 to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Social Mobility, Access to Education
Xu, Rui – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation presents three separate essays. The first two essays explore the gender wage gap and its dynamics in urban China from 1995 to 2018. The first chapter decomposes the gender wage gap based on the observed wage for workers with a precise measure of the hourly wages. The first chapter examines the observed average gender wage gap in…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Salary Wage Differentials, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement
Sirui Liu – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines the impact of state educational programs on the economics of education and labor, focusing on the New York State (NYS) STEM Incentive Program and China's tuition-free policy for vocational secondary education (VSE). The first two Chapters analyze the effects of the NYS STEM Incentive Program, an initiative implemented in…
Descriptors: Economics, State Programs, STEM Education, Incentives
An, Weihua; N. Glynn, Adam – Sociological Methods & Research, 2021
The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition (BOD) is a popular method for studying the contributions of explanatory factors to social inequality. The results have often been given causal interpretations. While recent work and this article both show that some types of BOD are equivalent to a counterfactual-based treatment effect/selection bias decomposition,…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Measurement Techniques, Statistical Bias, Guidelines
Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei; Zhu, Yu – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Using the China Family Panel Studies, we identify the subjects studied by vocational college and university graduates, with the latter group further divided into ordinary and key universities. While the returns are around 8-10% to attending colleges and ordinary universities, there are higher returns of 12-16% per annum to attending the more…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Foreign Countries, College Graduates
