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- Publisher
- World Scientific Publishing Company
- Copyright
- Copyright ©
- Subject
- Special Issue on Income Distribution & Inequality; Guest Editor: Yuko Arayama, Nagoya University
- ISSN
- 0217-5908
- eISSN
- 1793-6837
- DOI
- 10.1142/S0217590814500052
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Using the 2007 education survey data in urban China, this paper measures the inequality of education expenditures, an indicator of education inequality, and analyzes the effect of household income on the components of education expenditures. Since the components of education expenditure are censored and inter-related, this paper runs a multivariate Tobit system regression of five categories of education expenditures. Our results imply that household income per capita positively affects expenditure on boarding, private tutoring and costs for selecting schools but does not affect expenditure on textbooks. In return, the inequality of education expenditures contribute to income inequality in urban China.
Journal
The Singapore Economic Review – World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: Mar 1, 2014
Keywords: Education expenditure urban China multivariate tobit JEL Classifications: C30 JEL Classifications: I24 JEL Classifications: I28 JEL Classifications: J31 JEL Classifications: O15 JEL Classifications: R23