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The rapid expansion of enrollment capacity in China's colleges since the late 1990s has come at the price of high … tuition hikes. China's government has put forth financial aid programs to enable poor students to access higher education … was run among the 200 poorest first-year students in four first-tier colleges in inland China. Somewhat surprisingly, we …
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Purpose – This paper aims to explain why the quality of infrastructure projects in rural China differs from village to …/methodology/approach – Using primary data collected by the authors on three types of infrastructure projects in villages across China, they created …
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China between 2003 and 2007 and measured the quality and per kilometer cost of each road. According to our analysis, road …
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randomized controlled trial involving 1,418 disadvantaged (economically poor) students in rural China, we find that the promise …
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Using rural household panel data from three Chinese provinces, this paper identifies determinants of long-term poverty and tests the duration dependence on the probability to leave poverty. Special emphasis is given to the selection of the poverty line and inter-regional differences across...
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a randomized experiment evaluating the effects of a home-based parenting program delivered by cadres in China's Family …
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especially in the context of developing countries such as China where livestock is becoming more important in the domestic … agricultural economy. We estimate total factor productivity (TFP) for four major livestock products in China employing the … technical innovation in China's livestock sector, technical efficiency improvement has been relatively slow. …
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We present evidence from a randomized experiment testing the impacts of a six-month early childhood home-visiting program on child outcomes at school entry. Two and a half years after completion of the program, we find persistent effects on child working memory - a key skill of executive...
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We present evidence from a randomized experiment testing the impacts of a six-month early childhood home-visiting program on child outcomes at school entry. Two and a half years after completion of the program, we find persistent effects on child working memory - a key skill of executive...
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