Did Compulsory Education Promote Migrant Workers'Entrepreneurship
Promoting entrepreneurship among rural migrant workers is an important exploration for the urbanization of the agricultural transfer population.This study utilizes the exogenous shock of China's"Compulsory Education"policy,based on the 2017 China Mi-grant Population Health and Family Planning Dynamic Monitoring Survey(CMDS)data,and employs the cohort difference-in-differ-ences method to examine the impact of education on the entrepreneurial choices of rural migrant workers in cities.The study finds that the Compulsory Education policy significantly encourages rural migrant workers to choose entrepreneurship by increasing their years of education and expanding their"formal"social networks,thereby promoting their entrepreneurial choices.The entrepreneur-ial promotion effect of the Compulsory Education policy exhibits differences in types of entrepreneurship.Furthermore,the imple-mentation of the Compulsory Education policy also has an income-increasing effect on entrepreneurship.This study reveals the signif-icant role of education in the livelihood transformation process of rural migrant workers from"wage laborers"to"entrepreneurs",pro-viding insights and references for the optimization of policies related to new-type urbanization.The conclusion of the study reveals the important role of human capital in the process of livelihood transformation of migrant workers from"working"to"entrepreneur-ship",and provides reference for the optimization of relevant policies such as new urbanization.
UrbanizationCompulsory EducationMigrant Worker EntrepreneurshipCohort Difference-in-DifferencesHuman Capital