{"title":"Schooling and Income Effect of Education Development in China: Evidence from the National Compulsory Education Project in China’s Poor Areas","authors":"Dehua Wang, Jie Zou, Zhonggen Mao","doi":"10.1515/cfer-2020-090103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cfer-2020-090103","url":null,"abstract":"Whether investing in hardware for basic education is conducive to the long-term development of school-age children is a controversial issue in academic literature. Based on the data from the 2013 Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP), this paper uses the difference-in-differences (DID) method with cross-sectional data to evaluate the policy effects of China’s National Compulsory Education Project for Poor Areas launched in 12 central provinces in the mid-1990s. We fi nd that through the construction, renovation, or expansion of primary and junior middle school buildings and purchase of teaching equipment, this project achieved on its goal of “raising education levels”: the years of schooling of the benefi ciaries after they reached adulthood increased signifi cantly by roughly 0.7 years. However, the project was not found to have an “income effect”, i.e., the income of the benefi ciary children did not increase with the increase in schoolings. The econometric analysis shows that although the project could raise the income levels of the children in adulthood, it did not significantly increase the likelihood of the beneficiary groups moving to cities as migrant workers. Limited by the late development of secondary and tertiary industries in poor counties, the benefi ciaries who stayed locally were less likely to engage in non-farm occupations, and thus their income did not signifi cantly increase. This indicates that policies like the Compulsory Education Project designed to improve school hardware in a short period of time can effectively promote the development of basic education in poverty-stricken areas. Nonetheless, to achieve the fundamental goal of raising income while increasing schooling, it is also necessary to actively guide people moving to cities to work as migrant workers and bolster the development of local secondary and tertiary sectors.","PeriodicalId":66259,"journal":{"name":"China Finance and Economic Review","volume":"9 1","pages":"24 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42354006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Funding Liquidity and Bank Risk-Taking: Empirical Evidence from China","authors":"Yong Ma, Zhen Li","doi":"10.1515/cfer-2020-090105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cfer-2020-090105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":66259,"journal":{"name":"China Finance and Economic Review","volume":"9 1","pages":"64 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46925793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Employment Structure, Lewis Turning Point and the Labor Share of Income: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis","authors":"Jiajun Lan, Yingfeng Fang, T. Ma","doi":"10.1515/cfer-2020-090104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cfer-2020-090104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":66259,"journal":{"name":"China Finance and Economic Review","volume":"9 1","pages":"44 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49404345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local Government Debt Governance in China in the Past 70 Years: Review and Prospect","authors":"Yu-Qing Guo","doi":"10.1515/cfer-2019-080404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cfer-2019-080404","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":66259,"journal":{"name":"China Finance and Economic Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"49 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42504295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Do Rising Labor Costs Affect China’s Industrialization?","authors":"X. Bai, Qing Yu","doi":"10.1515/cfer-2019-080407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cfer-2019-080407","url":null,"abstract":"China’s uninterrupted high-speed economic growth depends on promoting the process of industrialization. Based on provincial data during 2003—2016, this paper empirically estimates the impact of labor costs on China’s industrialization and examines its mechanism and path. The results show that the rising labor costs such as wages and social security premiums may lead to China’s “de-industrialization”. With endogeneity excluded, the conclusion still holds. The following policy suggestions are proposed: increasing the effective labor supply in the industrial sector to slow down the increase in wages, implementing social insurance premium reform to reduce social security premium rate, reversing the situation of investment “fl eeing from the real economy and into the virtual economy” in a multi-pronged manner, and optimizing the combination of labor, capital and technology in various ways.","PeriodicalId":66259,"journal":{"name":"China Finance and Economic Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"98 - 111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44760426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review, Experience Summary and Prospect of Fiscal and Monetary Policy Coordination Paradigm in the 70 Years of People’s Republic of China","authors":"Jinquan Liu, Longwen Zhang","doi":"10.1515/cfer-2019-080405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cfer-2019-080405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":66259,"journal":{"name":"China Finance and Economic Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"66 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44993915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local Government Debt in China: Development in Seven Decades, Current Situation, and Reform Suggestions","authors":"Jing Feng","doi":"10.1515/cfer-2019-080406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cfer-2019-080406","url":null,"abstract":"Since 1949, local government debt in China has gone through the stages from scratch, then banned, and reintroduced, and then to the scale expansion, market construction and improvement under the system construction. In the past 70 years, although there have been twists and turns in its development, local government debt has undergone a “perfect transformation”. Based on a comprehensive review of the development of local government debt in China from 1949 to 2019, this paper refi nes its evolution logic, forecasts its development trend, and puts forward relevant policy recommendations for the future management and risk control of local government debt in China.","PeriodicalId":66259,"journal":{"name":"China Finance and Economic Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"83 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45125205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"China’s Monetary Policy Framework in the Past 70 Years: 1949—2019","authors":"Dexu He, Ming Feng","doi":"10.1515/cfer-2019-080402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cfer-2019-080402","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":66259,"journal":{"name":"China Finance and Economic Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"3 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43454802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"China’s Fiscal Policy in the Past Seven Decades: Characteristics, Experience and Prospects","authors":"Zhiyong Yang","doi":"10.1515/cfer-2019-080403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cfer-2019-080403","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":66259,"journal":{"name":"China Finance and Economic Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"29 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43794134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}