Zhang, Zheyuan; Xu, Hui; Liu, Ruilin; Zhao, Zhong - 2024
This paper estimates the impact of the Free Education Policy, a major education reform implemented in rural China in … times across different provinces. By utilizing nationally representative data from the China Family Panel Studies, we find … and child cognitive scores by an approximately 1% standard deviation in rural China, indicating a reduction of 3.5% in …