A Research on the Difference of Education Returns between Urban and Rural Areas

摘要

In this paper, the China Health and Nutrition Survey data are used to analyze the return rates of different educational stages in urban and rural areas in 2004 and 2006 respectively. The results show that the rate of return on primary and secondary education of urban laborers is significantly low, while higher education returns were significantly high, which means that the city labor force should accept more higher education. The rate of return on primary education for rural laborers has been significantly reduced, and the rate of return on secondary education has increased significantly, which means that rural labor force should receive more secondary education. Within the secondary education, the rate of return on vocational and technical education is higher than that of ordinary high school education in both the rural laborers and the urban laborers, so the government should guide the development of secondary vocational and technical schools and increase investment in secondary vocational education.