关键词: 代际收入传递, 教育扩展, 分位数回归, 趋势分解

Abstract:

Using the data from the China Health Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this paper empirically tests the existence of intergenerational income transmission of male born in 1949-1990. Also, this paper analyzes the trends and the mechanism of how education works in intergenerational income transmission. According to the result, the level of intergenerational income transmission has been increased from 1949 to 1990. The intergenerational income transmission elasticity reaches the peak respectively in the early 60's and early 80's. The increasing trend and the effect of parents on the secondary income cohort is the largest, featuring the shape of the “doubule-inverted-U”. The increasing trend of transmission in urban is twice as much as in rural, the effect of parents on high income cohort in urban area is higher and the effect of parents on low income cohort in rural area is higher. Decomposing the mechanism, it is verified that education count on 36% in the urban area and 26% in the rural area on how intergenerational income transmission. The inequality of educational opportunity caused by the family background is the main reason which influences the change trends of the intergenerational income transmission. However, with enhancing of education level, the role of education in the mechanism in China also shows the combination effect.

Key words: Intergenerational Income Transmission, Educational Expansion, Quantile Regression, Trends Decomposition