| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP12053
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| DP12053 China's Lost Generation: Changes in Beliefs and their Intergenerational Transmission |
| Gerard Roland; David Y. Yang
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| 发表日期 | 2017-05-19
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| 出版年 | 2017
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Beliefs about whether effort pays off govern some of the most fundamental choices individ- ual make. This paper uses China’s Cultural Revolution to understand how these beliefs can be affected, how they impact behavior, and how they are transmitted across generations. During the Cultural Revolution, China’s college admission system based on entrance exams was sus- pended for a decade until 1976, effectively depriving an entire generation of young people of the opportunity to access higher education (the “lost generation”). Using data from a nation- ally representative survey, we compare cohorts who graduated from high school just before and after the college entrance exam was resumed. We find that members of the “lost genera- tion” who missed out on college because they were born just a year or two too early believe that effort pays off to a much lesser degree, even 40 years into their adulthood. However, they invested more in their children’s education, and transmitted less of their changed beliefs to the next generation, suggesting attempts to safeguard their children from sharing their misfor- tunes. |
| 主题 | Development Economics
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| 关键词 | China
Cultural revolution
Cultural change
Changes in beliefs
Cultural transmission
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp12053
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/540864
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Gerard Roland,David Y. Yang. DP12053 China's Lost Generation: Changes in Beliefs and their Intergenerational Transmission. 2017.
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