From: “Lost at the starting line”: a reconsideration of educational inequality in China, 1978–2008
Variable | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | |||||
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Transition between primary and junior high school | Transition between junior high and senior high school | Transition between senior high school and university | ||||||
Nonkey junior high school | Key junior high school | Vocational senior high school | Nonkey senior high school | Key senior high school | College | Nonkey university | Key university | |
Enrollment yeara | 0.584* | 0.377 | 0.481* | −0.093 | 0.713** | 0.986** | 0.947** | 0.702 |
(0.227) | (0.314) | (0.217) | (0.166) | (0.243) | (0.307) | (0.344) | (0.412) | |
[1.793] | [1.458] | [1.617] | [0.912] | [2.039] | [2.680] | [2.579] | [2.018] | |
Father’s IESI when respondent was 14 years old (divided by 10) | 0.271*** | 0.307*** | 0.110* | 0.085* | 0.178** | −0.011 | 0.062 | 0.056 |
(0.064) | (0.079) | (0.045) | (0.041) | (0.055) | (0.052) | (0.074) | (0.092) | |
[1.311] | [1.360] | [1.117] | [1.089] | [1.195] | [0.989] | [1.064] | [1.057] | |
Years of parent’s education | 0.117*** | 0.214*** | 0.069** | 0.085*** | 0.085** | 0.060 | 0.066 | 0.122* |
(0.022) | (0.036) | (0.025) | (0.020) | (0.031) | (0.032) | (0.042) | (0.050) | |
[1.124] | [1.239] | [1.071] | [1.088] | [1.088] | [1.062] | [1.068] | [1.130] | |
Grade of schoolb | ||||||||
Key school | – | – | 0.872* | −1.231*** | 2.418*** | 1.207*** | 1.902*** | 2.200*** |
(0.356) | (0.350) | (0.267) | (0.236) | (0.275) | (0.355) | |||
[2.393] | [0.292] | [11.229] | [3.343] | [6.700] | [9.028] | |||
Vocational senior high school | – | – | – | – | – | −2.032*** | −4.287*** | −3.854*** |
(0.354) | (1.021) | (1.035) | ||||||
[0.131] | [0.014] | [0.021] | ||||||
Constant | 0.278 | −3.288*** | −2.494*** | −1.660*** | −3.850*** | −2.531*** | −3.304*** | −4.751*** |
(0.255) | (0.519) | (0.352) | (0.257) | (0.357) | (0.546) | (0.583) | (0.805) | |
N | 2587 | 2465 | 1502 | |||||
Pseudo R 2 | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.23 | |||||
Log likelihood | −1436.44 | −2094.33 | −638.93 |