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Has education led to secularization? Based on the study of compulsory education law in China
Yinhe Liang,Zhiyong Dong +1 more
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Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors studied the causal effect of education on personal religious beliefs and explored the potential mechanisms of education leading to the secularization of religious beliefs in China. And they found that individual religious belief decreases by 1.5% with one additional year of personal education.About:
This article is published in China Economic Review.The article was published on 2019-04-01. It has received 15 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Compulsory education & Secularization.read more
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Education and consumption: Evidence from migrants in Chinese cities
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors examined the causal impact of educational attainment on consumption among domestic migrants in Chinese cities and found that having one additional year of education generates an approximately seven percentage point increase in adult-equivalent monthly household consumption expenditure per capita.
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Education and migrant entrepreneurship in urban China
Zhiming Cheng,Russell Smyth +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between educational attainment and entrepreneurship and found that having one additional year of education generates a 3.5 percentage points increase in the probability of being an employer entrepreneur vis-a-vis an employee, and a 4.7 percentage point increase of being a solo entrepreneur, while having better education does not affect the propensity to become an entrepreneur in general.
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How to optimize the allocation of research resources? An empirical study based on output and substitution elasticities of universities in Chinese provincial level
TL;DR: In this article, a fixed effect stochastic frontier model based on the translog production function was used to estimate the output and substitution elasticities of research and development in China.
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Can tourism enhance Chinese subjective well-being?
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper empirically examined the overall impact of tourism on Chinese individuals' subjective well-being and found that tourism can significantly improve Chinese people's subjective wellbeing.
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The impact of education on mental health: evidence from compulsory education law in China
TL;DR: This paper investigated the causal effect of education on mental health by using the exogenous variation in years of schooling arising from the compulsory schooling law implemented in China during the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s.
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