Does Higher Education Promote Social Mobility?——an Empirical Analysis of PSM Based on CGSS Data
Based on the mixed cross-section data of the four rounds of"China's General Social Survey"in 2013,2015,2017 and 2018,the PSM method of quasi-natural experiment is adopted to overcome the problems of self-selection and endogenesis,and to explore the instrumental role of higher education in promoting social mobili-ty.The results show that higher education is still one of the channels to promote social mobility,but after overco-ming the self-selection and endogenesis,the"net effect"of higher education to promote social mobility is great-ly reduced.Higher education can promote the mobility of social class with the heterogeneity of perceived social class mobility,expected social class mobility and intergenerational social class mobility.Higher education cannot signifi-cantly improve the perceived social class,but can significantly promote the expected and intergenerational social class upward mobility.After enrollment expansion,higher education cannot significantly promote the upward mobility of social class,and higher education cannot significantly promote the upward mobility of social class of children from agricultural household registration and disadvantaged economic status families.The instrumental role of higher education"class replication"has been strengthened.
higher educationsocial class mobilityPSMhierarchical replication
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