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022 _a0013-0079
100 _aDemurger, Sylvie
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245 0 _aEmployer Learning and the Dynamics of Returns to Universities: Evidence from Chinese Elite Education during University Expansion
260 _bEconomic Development and Cultural Change
260 _c2024
300 _a339-379
520 _aThis paper estimates the return to an elite-university education over a college graduate’s career in contemporary China. After allowing for university selectivity by including individual admission scores, we find a substantial premium for graduating from an elite Chinese university at the job entry that declines quickly in early career before starting to return. Results are entirely driven by cohorts entering college after the 1999 higher-education expansion. The pattern is more pronounced in coastal provinces and in economically more developed regions. The results are consistent with predictions of asymmetric employer-learning models.
650 _a Chinese Elite Education
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650 _a Chinese University
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650 _a Returns to Universities
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650 _aEmployer Learning
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700 _a Hanushek, Eric A.
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700 _a Zhang, Lei
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856 _uhttps://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/727519
999 _c134584
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