Does College Education Promote Entrepreneurship in China?
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Keywords
College education; Entrepreneurship; Higher education expansion policy; Fuzzy regression discontinuity design;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
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