Same Expansion, Different Effects : Evidence from Impact of Education Policy on Intergenerational Income Mobility in China

By comparing the impact of two different expansionary education policies in China, namely compulsory education popularization and college enrollment expansion, we test their effects on China’s intergenerational income mobility and find that the impacts of the two policies on intergenerational income mobility are quite different. Based on analyzing the changes in education scale before and after the policies, we put forward the idea of improving intergenerational income mobility through education policy