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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 …
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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 – The purpose of this paper is to quantify the implications of China's recently adopted agricultural policies … applied to address whether China's recent trade and production policies distort China's domestic and international commodity … increase China's production slightly, causing imports to decrease while exports decline because of input subsidies, export …
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Purpose – With the rise in the opportunity to go to college, the purpose of this paper is to identify if China's rural …
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Purpose – This paper seeks to understand the evolution of financial intermediation in the course of China's economic … collaborators from a 1998 survey of financial institutions, enterprises, and government officials in southern China. Findings … – Based on an empirical investigation of rural financial reforms, it is argued that China's two-decade long financial reform …
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One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is a high profile initiative to narrow the inequality of access to ICT and improve educational performance. However, there is little empirical evidence on its impacts. In order to assess the effectiveness of OLPC, we conducted a randomized experiment of OLPC with...
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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 …
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