Does Vocational Education Promote the Intergenerational Mobility? ——An Empirical Evidence from the Chinese Family Panel Studies

• In Event: Rural Students, Education and Social Mobility in China

Proposal

It is of great importance to examine the role of vocational education system in affecting social mobility and social equity. This paper uses the China General Social Survey data (2010-2020) to explore the impact of secondary vocational education on intergenerational mobility by using the multiple logistic regression model (MLM) and the propensity matching score method (PSM). The empirical results show that: firstly, the probability of secondary vocational education promoting individual intergenerational career upward mobility is higher than that of junior high school graduates who have not received high school education; Second, compared with receiving general high school education, secondary vocational education can increase the possibility of individuals' upward intergenerational career mobility. However, compared with higher education, secondary vocational education is less likely to promote upward intergenerational career mobility. Furthermore, the heterogeneity analysis shows that in the secondary education stage, the impact of secondary vocational education on improving the intergenerational career mobility of disadvantaged groups (peasants, families with lower socioeconomic status, and social groups from underdeveloped areas) is more prominent.

Authors

• quanyong yi, Southwest University, China

• Yao Xin-yue, Department of Education，East China Normal University

• Jingbo Li