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Zhao, Litao – Frontiers of Education in China, 2007
Based on one of the most widely used datasets by foreign-based sociologists, this paper examines the rate of returns to education in rural China. Compared with the previous studies that showed rather low rates in rural areas throughout the 1980s, this study finds a considerably higher rate in 1996. A chief contributor is the rapid non-agricultural…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Outcomes of Education, Labor Market, Rural Areas