Returns to schooling of male migrants in China using instrumental variable (IV) estimation

• Main Authors: Li, Shiyu, Lim, Mei Shan, Gan, Belinda Shu Zhen
• Other Authors: Christos Sakellariou
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development::China
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62485
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, we aim to cover the gaps in the existing literature by providing an accurate estimation of returns to schooling of male migrants in urban China after the reform, using Instrumental Variation (IV). Previous literature have used the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) approach and those that u...