Speaker: Donald Treiman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus, UCLA; Faculty Associate, California Center for Population Research, UCLA
Panelist/Discussant: Julian Chow, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
This paper first describes trends in educational attainment in China over the 20th century and then, using data from recent national probability sample surveys, considers how the process of educational attainment has varied over time. The speaker studies the role of political events, mainly the Cultural Revolution; the opportunity costs of education created by the Family Responsibility System; and trends in the gender gap and the rural-urban divide.