Dropping out: Why are students leaving junior high in China's poor rural areas?

Yi, Hongmei; Zhang, Linxiu; Luo, Renfu; Shi, Yaojiang; Mo, Di; Chen, Xinxin; Brinton, Carl; Rozelle, Scott

doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2011.09.002

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“…The differences in characteristics are consistent with the characteristics of dropouts (as described in Yi et al, 2012): dropouts tend to be older, with lower educational aspirations, and from families with lower human capital. A group of seventh grade students that stayed in school would, by ninth grade, be relatively younger, have higher aspirations to stay in school, and be better off (with parents that have higher human capital) than the students who dropped out.…”

Section: Comparing the Ninth And Seventh Grade Ecfa Experimentssupporting

confidence: 82%

“…Similar disparities in access to high school also exist between students from the poorest and richest quantiles in India (Kingdon, 2007). In China, up to 25% of students from poor, rural areas drop out even before completing junior high, compared to fewer than 3% of junior high students from richer, urban areas (Mo et al, 2013;Yi et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 84%

“…We also collected information about each student's family characteristics, such as number of siblings, the health status of parents, years of schooling of parents, and whether parents had ever migrated. Similar variables have been used in previous studies to explain differences in educational outcomes among students (e.g., Behrman and Rosenzweig, 2002;Currie and Thomas, 1995;Yi et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They are also almost certainly more motivated. Given high dropout rates between the seventh and ninth grade (measured by others-such as Yi et al, 2012), it perhaps should not be surprising that there were systematic differences in the sample of the students that participated in the ninth grade ECFA program and those that participated in the seventh grade ECFA program. According to our baseline data collected in November 2010 (Table 7), students in the ninth grade ECFA program are older (15.3 years compared to 13.7 years-row 1); more intent on going to academic high (53% versus 43%-row 3); and clearer about their plans (only 25% of ninth graders said they had no plans versus 38% of seventh graders-row 5).…”

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Giving Kids a Head Start: The Impact and Mechanisms of Early Commitment of Financial Aid on Poor Students in Rural China

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We estimate the impact of two early commitment of financial aid (ECFA) programs-one at the start and one near the end of junior high school (seventh and ninth grades, respectively)-on the outcomes of poor, rural junior high students in China. Our results demonstrate that neither of the ECFA programs has a substantive effect. We find that the ninth-grade program had at most only a small (and likely negligible) effect on matriculation to high school. The seventh-grade program had no effect on either dropout rates during junior high school or on educational performance as measured by a standardized math test. The seventh-grade program did increase the plans of students to attend high school by 15%. In examining why ECFA was not able to motivate significant behavioral changes for ninth graders, we argue that the competitiveness of the education system successfully screened out poorer performing students and promoted better performing students. Thus by the ninth grade, the remaining students were already committed to going to high school regardless of ECFA support. In regards to the results of the seventh grade program, we show how seventh graders appear to be engaged in wishful thinking (they appear to change plans without reference to whether their plans are realistic).

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“…2 Then, we administered a questionnaire to all students to understand student individual and family characteristics, such as their gender, age, and parent education and migration status. Previous studies have used similar variables to explain student-level differences in educational outcomes (Currie and Thomas, 2000;Behrman and Rosenzweig, 2002;Yi et al, 2012) and differences in social capital (Bowlby, 1988;Sampson and Laub, 1995;Hall, 1999). A description of all control variables used is provided in Appendix A.…”

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Ability Tracking and Social Capital in China's Rural Secondary School System

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Loyalka

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Growing up without health insurance: Evidence from rural China

Fang,

Li,

Tang

2023

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This paper examines the long‐term effects of health insurance on children's educational attainment in a developing country. Utilizing the county‐by‐county rollout of the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme in rural China, we find that exposure to the health insurance program in early life leads to improved educational attainment in adulthood. Empirical tests suggest that a short‐term increase in health care utilization is unlikely to be a potential channel. We provide some evidence for the channel that health insurance reduces household financial burdens and increases household expenditure on children's nutrition.

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Dropping out: Why are students leaving junior high in China's poor rural areas?

Cited by 122 publications

References 35 publications

Giving Kids a Head Start: The Impact and Mechanisms of Early Commitment of Financial Aid on Poor Students in Rural China

Giving Kids a Head Start: The Impact and Mechanisms of Early Commitment of Financial Aid on Poor Students in Rural China

Ability Tracking and Social Capital in China's Rural Secondary School System

Growing up without health insurance: Evidence from rural China

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