Does College Education Promote Entrepreneurship in China?

被引:15
作者
Chu, Tianshu [1 ]
Wen, Qiang [2 ]
机构
[1] Southwestern Univ Finance & Econ, Res Inst Econ & Management, Chengdu, Sichuan, Peoples R China
[2] Xiamen Univ, Wang Yanan Inst Studies Econ, Xiamen, Fujian, Peoples R China
关键词
College education; Entrepreneurship; Higher education expansion policy; Fuzzy regression discontinuity design; SELF-EMPLOYMENT; EXPANSION; INEQUALITY; UNEMPLOYMENT; PERFORMANCE; SELECTION; IDENTITY; CHOICE; IMPACT; RISE;
D O I
10.1007/s12122-019-09293-0
中图分类号
F24 [劳动经济];
学科分类号
020106 ; 020207 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
There is no consensus on the impact of education on entrepreneurial choice in both theory and empirics. China's Higher Education Expansion (HEE) policy initiated in 1999 provides us a unique opportunity to identity the causal relationship between college education and entrepreneurship by exploiting the Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design (FRDD) approach. In this paper, we use the China Household Income Project (CHIP) 2013 database, finding that China's HEE policy significantly increases the probability of obtaining college education by 12%. There is suggestive evidence that college education decreases overall and self-employed-type of entrepreneurial choices, but increases boss-type activities; none of the coefficients are precisely estimated, though. Our results are robust to different inference approaches.
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页码:463 / 486
页数:24
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