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 …

By 2010, only one-quarter of workers in China had received a high school (HS) education. One of the root causes of this … low rate is that China has the highest HS tuition fees globally. Although the Chinese government has implemented a series … of programs to reduce the cost of attending vocational HS, the cost of attending academic HS in China remains high. This …

junior high school (seven than ninth grades, respectively)—on the out comes of poor, rural junior high students in China. Our …. The seventh-grade program did increase the plans of students to attend high school by 15%. In examining why ECFA was not … system successfully screened out poorer performing students and promoted better performing students. Thus by the ninth grade …

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

western rural China, the empirical study found that school expenditures on students and teachers account for only 12% of total … expenditures, while expenditures on school administration is as high as 72%. Expenditures on students and teachers (software) are …