Jan 1, 2005 · This paper discusses human capital investment in China. China's current policies favor physical capital investment over schooling and urban human capital investment over rural human capital investment. Current migration policies discriminate against children of migrants.

Jun 17, 2024 · China’s ability to cultivate, attract, and retain human capital—or as Beijing more commonly puts it, national “talent”—will shape its competitiveness vis-à-vis the United States as a global power and impact the future of innovation and talent on the world stage.

This article first presents the potential benefits that flow from investment in human capital. Then I discuss the empirical evidence on the rate of return to education in China. I next consider alternative policy reforms that would foster skill acquisition and enable China to harvest the benefits of investment in human capital. I.

By exploiting the large quantity and rich variety of special economic zones (SEZs) in China, this study investigates how such zones affect human capital investment. Results show that SEZs significantly increase the local high school enrollment rate, but the impact varies across zone types: technology-oriented zones encourage education, while ...

We estimated China's human capital stock from 1985 to 2008 based on the Jorgenson–Fraumeni (J–F) lifetime income framework. In order to accommodate the Chinese data and to capture human capital …

In this paper, I first present the potential benefits that flow from investment in human capital. Then I discuss the empirical evidence on the rate of return to education in China. I next consider alternative policy reforms that would foster skill acquisition and enable China to harvest the benefits of investment in human capital. 1See ...

Jan 1, 2021 · In this paper, we investigate how NRPS affects the investment of human capital in children aged zero to 16, based on a representative sample from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), using a propensity matching difference-in-differences (PSM-DID) causal effects identification strategy.

This paper discusses evidence on human capital investment in China. Policies through the mid 1990s favor physical investment over schooling.

Amelie Constant, Bienvenue Tien, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Jingzhou Meng China's Overt Economic Rise and Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top, SSRN Electronic Journal 107 (Jan 2010).

This paper discusses human capital investment in China. China's current policies favor physical capital investment over schooling and urban human capital investment over rural human capital investment.