Rate of Returns to Education of Persons with Disabilities in Rural China

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10.2991/icassr.2013.60How to use a DOI?

Keywords

rural; disabled people; returns to education; Mincer regression

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to estimate the returns to education in the disable people in rural China in the past 20 years. The regression of Mincerian wage equation as the method is used, and the data is based on CHNS data in 1991-2009 survey. The results show that the education level has significant positive linear relationship with the rate of returns to education (RRE). The RRE for the rural disable people is lower than the RRE of the disabled in urban, which are 5.3% and 7.6%. The RRE of male disabled is higher than the RRE of female. Difference of RRE of disabled people between different regions are significant and East>West>Central is RRE orders in rural regions in China. The results imply that it is necessary to increase supply of special education to improve the education situation of the disabled in rural China and focus on the educational problem in the female disabled.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Juan Liao
AU  - Jinbo Zhao
PY  - 2013/08
DA  - 2013/08
TI  - Rate of Returns to Education of Persons with Disabilities in Rural China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Applied Social Science Research (ICASSR-2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 230
EP  - 233
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icassr.2013.60
DO  - 10.2991/icassr.2013.60
ID  - Liao2013/08
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