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Effects of High School Closure on Education and Labor Market Outcomes in Rural China

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This paper examines the effects of a nationwide destruction of rural high schools immediately after the Cultural Revolution in China on education and labor market outcomes. Combining unique data on the county-level timing of school closures with the 1990 census microdata, I first document a sharp decline of 35% in high school completion in the first cohort exposed to the closures. I then find that the school closures led to negative labor market performances a decade later: affected individuals were 10% less likely to work off-farm and 29% less likely to work in a white-collar job.

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  • Shuang Zhang, 2018. "Effects of High School Closure on Education and Labor Market Outcomes in Rural China," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 67(1), pages 171-191.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:ecdecc:doi:10.1086/697564
    DOI: 10.1086/697564
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    1. Psacharopoulos, George & Collis, Victoria & Patrinos, Harry Anthony & Vegas, Emiliana, 2020. "Lost Wages: The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures," GLO Discussion Paper Series 548, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    2. Emily Hannum & Xiaoying Liu & Fan Wang, 2021. "Estimating the Effects of Educational System Consolidation: The Case of China’s Rural School Closure Initiative," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 70(1), pages 485-528.
    3. Terry Sicular & Mengbing Zhu, 2022. "The Big Expansion of Rural Secondary Schooling during the Cultural Revolution and The Returns to Education in Rural China," University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series 202212, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics.

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