Li, Hongbin; Meng, Lingsheng; Mu, Kai; Wang, Shaoda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the unintended effect of English language requirement on educational inequality by investigating how … the staggered rollout of English listening tests in China's high-stakes National College Entrance Exam (NCEE) affected the … and 2003, we find that the introduction of English listening tests significantly lowered rural students' exam score …