A significant gap remains between rural and urban students in the rate of admission to senior high school. One reason … students in China. We surveyed three counties in Shaanxi Province and exploit the fact that, while the counties are adjacent to … statistically significant and positive impact on the math scores of seventh grade students. More importantly, this program is shown …

the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matriculate into high school. Based on a … randomized controlled trial involving 1,418 disadvantaged (economically poor) students in rural China, we find that the promise …, that providing the CCT increases high school matriculation among the subset of disadvantaged students who overestimate the …