Aiming to provide better education facilities and improve the educational attainment of poor rural students, China … in counties and towns. Unfortunately, little empirical work has been available to evaluate the impact of the new merger … educational performance. This allows us to examine the costs and benefits of the school merger and investment programmes. The …

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, China’s Ministry of Education embarked on an ambitious program of elementary school … familiar villages. Because of the increased distances to the new centralized schools, the merger program also entailed building …, our overall goal is to examine the impact of the Rural Primary School Merger Program on academic performance of students …

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 …

Purpose – With the rise in the opportunity to go to college, the purpose of this paper is to identify if China's rural …

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 …

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 …

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 …