高等教育回报的质量差异*——对部属、省属与地方高校的比较研究
QUALITY DIFFERENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION RETURN——A Comparative Study of C&U Affiliated to Ministry, C&U Affiliated to Local Government and Other C&U

摘要 文章将高校按质量差异分成部属高校、省属高校及其他高校，利用倾向得分配对的方法估计教育质量回报的相关处理效应。研究发现，高校质量与个体获得的教育回报正相关，部属高校的回报最高，年均回报（ATE）约为185%，从大学总体回报来看，部属高校与其他高校之间的回报差异为163%，而与省属高校不存在显著差异。对于实际上大学的个体，不同类型高校之间的参与者处理效应(TT)均存在显著差异。通过对教育回报的性别差异比较，发现女性进入一流高校比男性的价值更大。
Abstract： This paper classifies the colleges and universities(C&U) into three levelsThere are C&U affiliated to ministry, C&U affiliated to local government, and other C&U We estimate the treatment effect of the education return of different C&U We find that there are positive relationships between education return and education quality C&U affiliated to ministry have the highest education return Average annual return is about 185 percent The total education return difference between C&U affiliated to ministry and other C&U is 163 percent The difference is not significant between C&U affiliated to ministry and C&U affiliated to local government There are significant return differences among different C&U for people went to C&U After estimating sex difference, we find that going to the top universities would be more valued for female in the point of view of human capital investment.