标题：Public Educational Expenditure, Family Background and Children's Access to High School in China

汇报人：Juan Yang，Beijing Normal University

功夫：2:00-3:30pm, February 21

地址：拉斯维加斯9888新楼217教室

Abstract:

With the increasing trend of public investment in education, the relationship between individuals’ educational attainment and their family backgrounds turns to a major concern by sociologist, economists and policy makers. Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census data of 2005 and educational expenditure data in county level during 1999 to 2001 in China, we study the impact of family background on the decisions of individuals’ educational participation to high school. Based on basic educational selection model, we found similar evidence with previous researches that father’s educational level, income, career and children’s city household registration are crucial to individuals’ educational attainment to high school. Furthermore we investigate the interaction between public educational expenditure and individuals characteristics (e.g. family background) among different cities in China. The results indicate with the growing of public educational expenditure, the impact of parents’ social-economic characters measured by father’s income and father’s career to their children’s educational participation is an inverse U shape (i.e. first increasing and then decreasing). In addition, increasing public spending on education may result the gap of educational opportunity between urban children and rural children, between boys and girls continuously widening, while the influence of father’s educational level is relatively stable irrespective the educational expenditure.