Based on the analysis of this situation, college English teaching needs to take cultural strengthening as basic core, realize effective educational reform, emphasize awareness for students and teachers, innovate diversified classroom introduction forms, improving College students’ attainments will lay an important foundation realization goals in China.

Using data from a most recent national household survey in China, we provide new evidence for the associations between body mass index (BMI) and labor market attainments. In contrast to previous studies, we find a significant non-linear relationship between BMI and probability of employment / wages, especially for women. Several potential channels are discussed carefully, including health, occu...

Human knowledge consists of static and dynamic knowledge chunks. The static ones include the so called lexical knowledge or the ability to sense similarities between facts and between predicates. Through dynamic attainments one can make deductions or one can give answers to a question. There are several and very different approaches to make a model of human knowledge, but one of the most common...

Can Risk Aversion Explain Schooling Attainments? Evidence from Italy Using unique Italian panel data, in which individual differences in behavior toward risk are measured from answers to a lottery question, we investigate if (and to what extent) risk aversion can explain differences in schooling attainments. We formulate the schooling decision process as a reduced-form dynamic discrete choice. ...

The effect of the socioeconomic characteristics in one generation on the socioeconomic achievement of the next generation is the central concern of social stratification research. Researchers typically address this issue by analyzing the associations between the characteristics of parents and offspring. This approach, however, focuses on observed parent-offspring pairs and ignores that changes ...