Abstract
The majority of existing studies find that Chinese residents would like to send children to study abroad for higher education quality and multiple opportunities. Previous studies have paid little attention to the association of this issue with environmental degradation in recent years. Merging data on adults from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) in 2016 with data on children, this paper investigates the effect of environmental concern on the educational level at which Chinese residents are willing to send children to study abroad based on the ordered logit model and Heckman Probit Model (HPM). The results show that environmental concern predicted a positive attitude toward a willingness to send children to study abroad at a decreased schooling level after concerns about the Chinese education system and educational expectations for children and other sociodemographic factors were controlled for. The marginal effects of environmental concern on expectations of sending children to study abroad at different educational levels showed that increasing environmental concern leads to the probability of residents considering sending children to study abroad during junior college or below increasing, while it leads to the probability of residents considering sending their children to study abroad during undergraduate or higher education decreasing. The HPM further verified that environmental concern had a positive effect on residents' willingness of sending their children to study during junior college or below. The study offers an important early step in the empirical testing of the relationship between Chinese residents' environmental concern and the educational level at which they would consider sending children to study abroad.
Highlights
The Ministry of Education in China announced that the number of Chinese students studying overseas soared to 662,100 in 2018, an increase of 8.83, compared to 2017 and the number of these students funded at their own expense was 467,600 [1]
We report the results of the second stage of the Heckman Probit Model (HPM) in Table 3, and the dependent variable in the outcome model is the educational level at which parents would consider sending children to study abroad
Merging adult data with child data, the paper explores the effects of environmental concern on the educational level at which Chinese residents consider sending children to study abroad by using ordered logit and HPM
Summary
The Ministry of Education in China announced that the number of Chinese students studying overseas soared to 662,100 in 2018, an increase of 8.83, compared to 2017 and the number of these students funded at their own expense was 467,600 [1]. Chinese Students Studying Abroad and Development (2012) published by the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) had shown that Chinese students studying abroad continued to extend from undergraduate to junior or senior high school and even lower schooling level, focusing on English-speaking. Environmental concern and expectation of sending children to study abroad
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