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- PublicationReturns to education in China : evidence from macro and micro perspectives(University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC), 2023)
; ; ; ; This study examines the impact of education on China's economic growth and individual labor income from both macro and micro perspectives. The first part of this study focuses on the relationship between education and China's economic growth from a macro perspective, particularly the role of the economic development level in this relationship. The results show a positive correlation between education and economic growth, but this relationship is sensitive to China's economic development level. Specifically, the impact of education on China's economic growth varies by period (pre- and mid-industrialization), region (East and West), and regions with periods (Eastern pre-industrialization, Western preindustrialization, East mid-industrialization, and West mid-industrialization) in both aggregate and disaggregated education. Overall, compulsory education plays a more critical role than high school and higher education in economic growth in China. The more developed regions benefited more from higher education, while the underdeveloped areas depended more on lower education. The second part of the study explores the returns to education in China from a micro perspective, particularly the returns to education among different Hukou subgroups. Based on an instrumental variable approach, the results show that the overall returns to education in China are 13% and 19% when using monthly and hourly earnings as dependent variables, respectively. There are significant gaps in the returns to education among different Hukou subgroups, with the highest returns observed among urban native workers, followed by urban Hukou-converted workers and rural native workers. The returns to education for rural-urban migrant workers are insignificant. These results are robust to different control variables, methods for constructing the instrumental variables, and sample selections. In addition, we find that the employer types and the childhood Hukou status of urban Hukou-converted workers have heterogeneous effects on the returns to education. Hukou status significantly affects individuals' occupational achievements66 2124 - PublicationThe Economics of parenting style and child development : evidence from rural Thailand(University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC), 2023)
; ; ; ; This dissertation investigates the determinants of parenting style and the bidirectional relationship between parenting style and child outcomes in the context of rural ThaiÂland in two parts. The first part examines the socioeconomic determinants of parenting style in the context of a developing country using early childhood panel data from rural Thailand. Our key findings are that more patient caregivers tend to be more authoritative than authoritarian, caregivers are more likely to be authoritative than authoritarian when they observe better behavior from their children, and caregivers exhibit more authoritarian than authoritative parenting if they perceive the community to be more dangerous. We also find that families with fewer resources, proxied by wealth, marital status, and parental absence, are more likely to be authoritarian. The second part focuses on the role of parenting style in child development. Our findings reveal that more authoritative relative to authoritarian parenting is posiÂtively associated with self-regulation and behavioral skills in children. These findings persisted when the relationship was estimated by considering community risk as an IV for parenting style. Relating cognitive skills, authoritative relative to authoritarÂian parenting is found to be positively associated with working memory. We also find that wealth and the caregiver's education were positively associated with the child's working memory. Moreover, while wealth promoted the positive impact of authoriÂtative versus authoritarian parenting on child behavioral skills and working memory, the caregiver's education was insignificant for the former and achieved the opposite for the latter skill118 6863