Authors: Anning Hu
Publish Date: 2013/02/06
Volume: 115, Issue: 3, Pages: 1101-1121
Abstract
China has undergone a rapid expansion in higher education since the late 1990s Drawing on a recently collected nationwide representative data the current study makes contributions to the understanding of the health benefits of college education in urban China Using propensity score matching to deal with potential selection bias the results of the current research suggest that higher education attainment can significantly promote people’s selfrated health status with the control for a series of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics Moreover this research also highlights the heterogonous treatment effects those who are more likely to attend college benefit less from the health returns to higher education than those who are less likely to go to college lending support to a negative heterogeneous treatment effect pattern Finally we also examine the cohort difference in the heterogeneous treatment effect and it turns out that the negative pattern mainly takes place among the cohorts born after 1981 the generations who experienced the expansion of higher education
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