The Consequences of the 1959–1961 Chinese Famine for Educational Attainment-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Consequences of the 1959–1961 Chinese Famine for Educational Attainment

Published:2020-02-01 Issue:2 Volume:20 Page:
ISSN:1935-1682
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Author:

Lay Margaret J.¹,Norling Johannes¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Economics , Mount Holyoke College , 50 College Street , South Hadley , MA 01075 , USA

Abstract

Abstract This paper finds that the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–1961 reduced lifetime educational attainment by up to 3.8 years for people who lived in areas most severely hit by the famine. Using geographical variation in famine intensity, information about place of residence during the famine, and educational attainment recorded in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, the paper demonstrates that the decline in educational attainment was particularly sharp for women. This decline interrupted substantial gains in schooling achieved in China during the middle part of the twentieth century.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous),Economics and Econometrics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/bejeap-2019-0112/pdf

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