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The Expanded Child Tax Credit and Educational Attainment in Rural, Majority-Minority Communities
by Ethan Bennett  and  Mengzhong Zhang
Abstract
Despite the status of the United States as one of the world’s economic superpowers, the country is plagued by child poverty. The issue of child poverty is most prominent in rural, majority-minority communities, where years of limited opportunity, often created by systematic oppression, have created a vicious cycle of economic despair. There are a number of policies that h [...] Read more

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The Rural-Urban Divide: Family Social Capital, Family Cultural Capital, and Educational Outcomes of Chinese Adolescents
by Claire Gek Ling Tan  and  Zheng Fang
Abstract
A large body of research has been dedicated to the study of relationships between social or cultural capital and educational outcomes in Western countries. However, few studies have examined these associations in a Chinese context, and even fewer have examined the effects of both forms of capital on educational outcomes simultaneously within a familial context in China. This st [...] Read more

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Access to Electricity and Primary Education Nexus in Central Africa
by Arsene Mouongue Kelly , Beatrice Laure Toukap Yimele , Nidel Lolita Wassou Tchieu  and  Pascal Ndyanabo Rutazihana
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Access to electricity, a fundamental element of contemporary life, is essential for economic success. Its impact extends to the fundamental foundations of industrial development and has the power to improve a wide range of industries, including healthcare, transportation, utilities, and education. This article aims to analyse the effect of electricity access on primary educatio [...] Read more

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Effects of Education Equalization Measures on Housing Prices: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Suzhou, China
by Shang Xie , Muhammad Ateeq ur Reman  and  Kang Mao
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Educational equity is the foundation of social equity, and education equalization is one of the serious issues to be solved by the government. This work considers one education equalization reform conducted by Suzhou Industrial Park of China, namely, the comprehensive "five to nine" (CFTN) housing purchase admission qualification adjustment policy, as an example and uses the re [...] Read more

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Navigating the Confluence of Inequality and STEM Equity: An Australian Perspective
by Alicia Liu , Safdar Khan  and  Alexandra Bec
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This study underscores the chronic issue of gender pay disparity that prevails across different STEM fields and educational qualification levels in Australia. Despite instances where women's incomes may align or even surpass men's, the broader pattern of inequality remains undeniable. The study advocates for targeted strategies to address gender pay gaps, particularly in fields [...] Read more

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The Impact of Executive Academic Experience on Green Innovation in Manufacturing Corporations
by Dehua Li , Zhihu Xia  and  Yingying Shi
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Green innovation, as a sustainable development approach, can synergistically promote high-quality economic and social development. We select China's A-share-listed manufacturing corporations from 2011 to 2021 as the research sample to empirically study the impact of executive academic experience on green innovation in manufacturing corporations. Further, we test the relationshi [...] Read more
Hit Affiliation:
Faculty of Educational Studies, University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

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Can Education Reduce or Mitigate Discrimination? An Investigation on Earnings of PhD Recipients in the US
by Wei-Chiao Huang , Qing Zang  and  Daxue Kan
Abstract
Spence’s signaling model (Spence, 1973) suggests that education can signal workers’ unobserved ability to employers thereby mitigating discrimination. There have been several studies concerning education’s impact on labor market discrimination against minority or disadvantaged groups. Our approach in this inquiry is unique in that we utilize the data of PhD re [...] Read more

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From degrees to dollars: Exploring the link between elite education and startup funding
by Alfredo Molinas
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Many startups look for venture capital (VC) funding to grow their business. Anecdotally, in the Southeast Asia context, startup founders who attended an elite institute of higher learning have greater access to this kind of capital, but this has not been demonstrated quantitatively. We look at a dataset of nearly 800 startups in Southeast Asia who have received VC funding in th [...] Read more

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Testing the Oswald hypothesis with Australian census data 2001-2016
by Megha Raut  and  W. Robert J. Alexander
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The Oswald hypothesis is that home ownership reduces mobility and through that channel results in poorer labor market outcomes. There has been only limited previous evidence on the Australian case. Here we use data from the first four Australian censuses of the twenty-first century, aggregated at the smallest geographical areas for which statistics are released. We propose test [...] Read more

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College Selectivity, Choice of Major, and Post-College Earnings
by William Brian Muse  and  Iryna Muse
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College choice and choice of major are the most important decisions for future earnings. It is still unclear, however, what makes a greater difference—college or major—or whether a choice of college matters more for some majors, but not the others. Using cross-classified models and College Scorecard data, I show that a discipline is more consequential for future ear [...] Read more

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Online consumers build trust with online merchants through real-time interaction function
by Lifu Li
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Given the rapid development of live streaming commerce in China, this study focuses on the interactivity and sociability of live streaming shopping activities and explores online consumers’ real-time interaction intentions and trust-building behaviours with online merchants. To discover the real-time interaction between online consumers and online merchants, this study bu [...] Read more

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Political Promotion and Manufacturing Firm Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Firms
by Long Wang , Qifeng Zhao  and  Wenyin Chen
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This paper aims to investigate the impact of political promotion on the productivity of manufacturing firms using the database of Chinese industrial enterprises from 1998 to 2007. We found that the political promotion of officials had a negative impact on manufacturing firm productivity, and this impact varied according to the characteristics of officials and enterprises. [...] Read more
Hit Affiliation:
China Institute for Educational Finance Research, Peking University, Beijing, China

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Are Inventors Better CEOs? Evidence from China
by Qifeng Zhao , Qianfeng Luo , Long Wang  and  Wenyin Chen
Abstract
This study investigates the impact of inventor CEOs on firm performance using a manually collected database of firms' inventors. Our findings reveal that, on average, firms with inventor CEOs experience a one- and two-percentage-point increase in ROA and ROE, respectively, compared to firms with noninventor CEOs. To address potential endogeneity issues, we employ turnover analy [...] Read more
Hit Affiliation:
China Institute for Educational Finance Research, Peking University,Beijing, China