Effects of Mobility Experience on Educational Attainment of Rural Population and Gender Differences:An Empirical Analysis Based on CMDS Data
The improvement in human capital is necessary for the transformation of China's demographic dividend to a quality dividend.Using the 2017 China Migrants Dynamic Survey(CMDS)data,the study explores how migration experiences affect educational attainment and its gender differences.We find that parental mobility experience significantly improves their children's educational attainment,as seen by the extension of the years of education and the rise in high school enrollment rates,and the effect is more prominent in female groups,indicating that mobility experience effectively eliminates gender gaps in the educational attainment of rural areas.Due to the"male-dominated"decision-making model in rural families,the effects of educational attain-ment and gap narrowing of migration experience are more prominent in families with fathers who have migration experiences.Based on the above findings,this paper explores the further impact of mobility experience.The results show that the educational attainment effect of mobility experiences has substantial characteristics of intergenerational inheritance,which is conducive to improving the employment stability of children and narrowing the education opportunity gap between urban and rural areas.In addition to providing a new perspective for understanding the declining gender gap in education,this paper also gives empirical research support for realizing the citizenship of agri-cultural transfer population.
Mobility experiencesHuman capitalGender differenceUrban-rural gap
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