China has made impressive strides in education in recent decades, even though the accumulation of human capital has … lagged behind that of physical capital. Going forward, access to and quality of education will be key to sustain economic … number of problems. Access to pre-school education is still far from universal. Migrants’ children as well as rural and poor …

At the beginning of transition from the socialist planning economy to a market economy, China did not have a modern … economics profession and the contribution of modern economics to China's transition was little. However, there has been … increasing needs for modern economics education and research, as Chinese economy becomes more market oriented. To meet the needs …

population has multiplied. However, along with other Asian Americans and minorities, Chinese Americans face housing, education …

China's central government incrementally introduced various kinds of student financial aid since the late 1990s in …

-scoring international SAT takers do not pursue US college education. …

-scoring international SAT takers do not pursue US college education. …

of peers. Education is a natural setting in which help from others can enhance individual performance. Using … administrative data from a university in China, this paper examines how competition changes peer effects and peer interactions …

Motivated by a widely observed phenomenon in China that female college students outperform male students in economics … microeconomics course in China. In stark contrast to what has been documented in the existing literature, which primarily focuses on … on average appear to earn higher scores than male students in China. I find that this is not because of female students …

, and in universities located in the coastal region compared to those in the western region of China. The former result … offers support for the recent merger activity which has taken place in Chinese higher education …

Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest … developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the … spread of public primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be important …