tuition hikes. China's government has put forth financial aid programs to enable poor students to access higher education …. Although studies have shown that poor high school students are indeed able to attend college when their test scores are high … students have sufficient amounts of aid to thrive in college.Using findings from a randomized controlled trial, this study …

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 … among ECFA recipients. However, ECFA does not measurably increase student academic performance, reduce dropout, or increase …

found that the program had no significantly heterogeneous impact on students with different academic performance … 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 …

junior high school (seven than ninth grades, respectively)—on the out comes of poor, rural junior high students in China. Our … on either dropout rates during junior high school or on educational performance as measured by a standardized math test …. The seventh-grade program did increase the plans of students to attend high school by 15%. In examining why ECFA was not …

A significant gap remains between rural and urban students in the rate of admission to senior high school. One reason … of attending high school, high tuition and school fees can reduce student academic performance in junior high school. In … students in China. We surveyed three counties in Shaanxi Province and exploit the fact that, while the counties are adjacent to …