Students in rural China are dropping out of secondary school at troubling rates. While there is considerable … 24,931 rural secondary students across four provinces, as well as analysis of extensive interviews with 52 students from …

controlled trial (RCT) to assess the impact of the CCT using a sample of the poorest 300 junior high school students in a … 60 percent. The programme is most effective among students with poor academic performance, and likely more effective … among girls and younger students …

school students in a nationally-designated poor county in Northwest China. Using our data, we found that the annual dropout …, younger students and the poorest performing students …

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 …

affects students' schooling decisions after graduation from junior high school. By using a longitudinal dataset of 2348 … students in two counties, we use ordinary least squares and propensity score matching to evaluate the impact of this program on … find that the effects of the program among middle-income students are stronger compared with those of other groups. And we …

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 …

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 …