This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of … nationally designated poor county in China. Using the difference-in-differences approach, we show that targeted poverty … empirical evidence for boys. Our findings suggest that the new anti-poverty program in China has the potential to ameliorate the …

Poverty and low investment in human capital are believed to form a vicious circle. This paper explores China's new …. Using data from China Family Panel Studies between 2010 and 2014, we find that being exposed to the anti-poverty … poverty alleviation program in 2011 and addresses the question whether anti-poverty interventions are e ective in breaking the …

examine the timing and duration of exposure to poverty in neighbourhood and school contexts between ages 10 and 16, to predict … achievement, independent of school poverty. Furthermore, we found that for neighbourhood poverty, especially enduring exposure … impacts on educational achievement, while the timing of exposure does not play a role. However, for school poverty, both …

most ambitious social experiments to alleviate poverty of our time. We provide the first empirical test of the causal … eliminate the achievement gap or whether the issues that poor children bring to school are too much for educators alone to … effective at increasing the achievement of the poorest minority children. Taken at face value, the effects in middle school are …

most ambitious social experiments to alleviate poverty of our time. We provide the first empirical test of the causal … eliminate the achievement gap or whether the issues that poor children bring to school are too much for educators alone to … effective at increasing the achievement of the poorest minority children. Taken at face value, the effects in middle school are …