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EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH EVIDENCE FROM CHINA AND POLICY IMLICATION Column C allows the racial and ethnic composition of SAT-takers to have an independent effect on average SAT scores. If there are cultural biases in SAT scores, for example, individual ethnicity may have a different effect than does the composition of the peer group. The coefficients on racial composition variables are large and significant, but again their inclusion has essentially no effect on the parameter of interest, the interaction of average peer quality with Tiebout choice | EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH EVIDENCE FROM CHINA AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS Weibin Xu A DISSERTATION Education Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2000 Supervisor of Disseirtation Graduate Group Chairperson UMI Number 9989672 _ _ _ S UMI UMI Microform9989672 Copyright 2001 by Bell Howell Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved. This microform edition is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17 United States Code. Bell Howell Information and Learning Company 300 North Zeeb Road . BOX1346 Ann Arbor Ml 48106-1346 To my grandfather a hard-working traditional .