Recent studies have shown that only about two-thirds of the students from poor, rural areas in China finish junior high … school and enter high school. One factor that may be behind the low rates of high school attendance is that students may be … trial (RCT) using a sample of 131 junior high schools and more than 12,000 students to test the effects of providing …

Students from poor, rural areas of China receive less secondary schooling than their urban peers in part because of …

A significant gap remains between rural and urban students in the rate of admission to senior high school. One reason … students in China. We surveyed three counties in Shaanxi Province and exploit the fact that, while the counties are adjacent to … statistically significant and positive impact on the math scores of seventh grade students. More importantly, this program is shown …

the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matriculate into high school. Based on a … randomized controlled trial involving 1,418 disadvantaged (economically poor) students in rural China, we find that the promise …, that providing the CCT increases high school matriculation among the subset of disadvantaged students who overestimate the …