attendance in poor rural areas of China is still low. The high cost of preschool is often regarded as a major barrier to … readiness. To do so, we conducted a randomized controlled trial among 150 young children in a poor, rural county in China. Our … readiness. We believe that poor quality of preschool education in rural China (in terms of both teaching and facilities …

Recent studies have shown that only about two-thirds of the students from poor, rural areas in China finish junior high … counseling on dropout may also be due to the high and growing wages for unskilled labor (high opportunity costs) in China …

We present a summary analysis of the important changes in township and village finance in China between 2000 and 2004 … investment efforts by upper-level governments in the rural sector. This "Tax-and-Fee reduction" was popular in rural China but it …

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 …

Since economic liberalization in the late 1970s, China's health care providers have grown heavily reliant on revenue … of essential drugs, China introduced its national essential drug list in 2009 and implemented a zero markup policy … China's township health centers and their catchment-area populations both before and after the reform. We found large …

Students in rural China are dropping out of secondary school at troubling rates. While there is considerable …

junior high school (seven than ninth grades, respectively)—on the out comes of poor, rural junior high students in China. Our …

Recently China's central government has promoted public goods investment in pursuit of rural development and poverty …