A study of the impact of housing system reform in China on intergenerational education mobility

ZHOU Huadong, HUANG Jiawen, LIU Jianan

Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice ›› 2024, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (9) : 2948-2964.

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Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice ›› 2024, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (9) : 2948-2964. DOI: 10.12011/SETP2023-0817

A study of the impact of housing system reform in China on intergenerational education mobility

  • ZHOU Huadong, HUANG Jiawen, LIU Jianan
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Improving intergenerational mobility and promoting equity of opportunity are crucial for achieving common wealth in China. Drawing on data from the China Family Panel Studies, this paper explores the long-term effects of housing system reform on the intergenerational mobility of urban residents' education in China and its mechanisms using a cross-sectional double-difference approach, using the inter-province differences in the intensity of China's housing system reform in 1998 as an exogenous shock. The study finds that housing system reform significantly promotes intergenerational educational mobility of urban residents, and the effect is more pronounced among families with younger children and among females. The mechanism analysis reveals that the increase in the number of years of schooling of children from low-educated and high-income families is more intuitively responsible for the impact of housing system reform on intergenerational mobility in education, and furthermore, housing system reform promotes intergenerational mobility in education by reducing the gap in educational environment and the gap in household investment in education for children from families with different educational backgrounds. This article provides an example of the benefits of market-oriented reform in terms of fairness, which may be due to the fact that market-oriented housing allocation has a better meaning of fairness compared to the previous approach of distributing housing by profession and class.

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housing system reform / intergenerational mobility in education / educational equity

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ZHOU Huadong , HUANG Jiawen , LIU Jianan. A study of the impact of housing system reform in China on intergenerational education mobility. Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice, 2024, 44(9): 2948-2964 https://doi.org/10.12011/SETP2023-0817

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