Assigning admission quotas in proportion to regional student population size is deemed to alleviate regional inequality by equalizing students’ access to high-quality universities. We question this policy by investigating the rationale of schools behind their insistence on using local...

We present findings from an evaluation study of the Dual-Teacher program, a computer- assisted instruction program, that makes lecture videos and other teaching resources from an elite urban middle school available through the internet to schools in poor and remote areas in China. The unique...

A large portion of school and college places in the world are allocated through centralized admissions schemes. In this paper, we study a model of centralized admissions with the feature that schools are allowed to pre-commit to admitting qualified applicants who rank them as top choice over...

We present findings from an evaluation study of the Dual-Teacher program, a computer- assisted instruction program, that makes lecture videos and other teaching resources from an elite urban middle school available through the internet to schools in poor and remote areas in China. The unique...

We examine whether Chinese only child and child with siblings, having similar ability as well as similar risk and social preferences, differ in their selection into a competitive environment. Participants in a laboratory experiment solve a real task, first under a non-competitive piece rate and...

Little is known on how social identity affects cooperation in a unique “One Country, Two Systems” (OCTS) paradigm. We conducted an experiment comparing the coop-erative behaviors of subjects from the mainland China and special administrative re-gions of Hong Kong and Macao (HK–MC). When...

We present findings from an evaluation study of the Dual-Teacher program, a computer- assisted instruction program, that makes lecture videos and other teaching resources from an elite urban middle school available through the internet to schools in poor and remote areas in China. The unique...