The effects of tuition reforms on school enrollment in rural China

Chyi, Hau; Zhou, Bo

doi:10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.11.003

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“…The survey contains information on demographic characteristics, employment and work, consumption and expenditure, diet and nutrition, health condition, and leisure time activities. While CHNS has been used mainly for studies of health related topics, it contains rich information that has allowed for studies of labor issues (Chen et al 2014), children's education (Chyi and Zhou 2014), income inequality (Ward 2014) and many others. Studies on minimum wage issues in China have started to use micro-level data only in recent years because micro-level data are limited and are often not publicly available for research.…”

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Minimum wage effects on employment and working time of Chinese workers——evidence based on CHNS

Sun

Wang

Zhang

2015

IZA J Labor Develop

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This paper examines the impact of minimum wage policies on employment, income, and working time of Chinese workers. Using data from China Health and Nutrition Survey, we focus on identifying the effects of minimum wage adjustments using a pre-specified model. We control for lagged minimum wage standard, individual characteristics, provincial population and economic factors, and fixed effects of province and year. We find some evidence of minimum wage impacts on wages and employment for limited groups. Increase of minimum wage has positive effect on wage income only for low-income workers and has negative employment effect only for workers in private and individual enterprises. While minimum wage shortens the average working hours for employed workers, it does not have significant effect on the relative working times for different income groups. These findings may imply some beneficial effects of the minimum wage policies for Chinese workers. JEL code: J22, J31, J38.

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Minimum wage effects on employment and working time of Chinese workers——evidence based on CHNS

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Zhang

2015

IZA J Labor Develop

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“…For example, in China, the financial burden has been shown to be an important deterrent to obtaining education even in the compulsory education stage; that is, primary and middle school education (Brown & Park, 2002;Zhao & Glewwe, 2010). According to the calculation by Chyi and Zhou (2014), the tuition of a primary school student per year was between 2.1-9.1 per cent of household income in rural areas in China. As a result, for example, although the primary school enrolment rate in rural counties in Gansu where we collected the data used in this paper was 97 per cent in 2000, middle school enrolment was only 84 per cent in 2004.…”

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The Impact of Educational Fee Reduction Reform on School Enrolment in Rural China

Shi

2016

The Journal of Development Studies

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We investigate the impact of educational fee reduction reform on children's school enrolment in rural China. Using data from Gansu Survey of Children and Families, we find that the reform did not have significant impacts on school enrolment of 9-12 year old children, while the reform had significant impacts on school enrolment of 13-16 year old children. We also find that for children enrolled in 2004, the higher are the fee reductions, the higher is the probability for them to stay in school in 2007. Heterogeneous effects in terms of different characteristics are also found in this paper.

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“…On the other hand, since 2005, other research has documented a persistent gender gap. For example, Ren and Rammohan (2014) find that the gender gap in WAZ widened between 1991 to 2009 [ 42 ], while Chyi and Zhou (2014) find that primary and junior high school enrollment rates are still higher among boys than among girls [ 43 ]. In addition, there is evidence to suggest that girls still suffer from mental health issues disproportionately more than boys do [ 44 , 45 ], although this research has not typically been based on empirical measures.…”

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The gender gap among school children in poor rural areas of western China: evidence from a multi-province dataset

Zhou

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Int J Equity Health

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BackgroundThe gender gap remains a major impediment in the path towards equality and it is especially wide in low-income countries. Up to the early 2000s, many studies documented extensive inequalities in China: girls had poorer health, less nutrition and less education than their male counterparts. The goal of this study is to examine whether the gender gap persists, given that China is now making the transition into the ranks of upper-middle income countries. We consider educational outcomes, mental and physical health status, as well as non-cognitive outcomes.MethodsWe draw on a dataset containing 69,565 observations constructed by combining data from 7 different school-level surveys spanning 5 provinces. The surveys were all conducted by the authors between 2008 and 2013 using uniform survey instruments and data collection protocols in randomly selected schools across western provinces in rural China. The sample children range in age from 9 to 14 years (with 79 % of the sample being aged 10 to 12). Our analysis compares rural girls with rural boys in terms of 13 different indicators.ResultsWith the exception of anemia rates, the health outcomes of girls are equal to those of boys. Girls and boys are statistically identical in terms of weight-for-age, height-for-age, and prevalence of intestinal worm infections. Girls performed better than boys on five of six cognitive and educational performance indicators. Girls performed worse than boys on all mental health indicators. All estimates are robust to the inclusion of different age ranges, controlling for the level of household assets, ethnic minority status, as well as the addition of provincial dummies.ConclusionsOur findings suggest that with the exception of non-cognitive outcomes, anemia and standardized math test scores, the gender gap in our study areas in China appears to be diminishing.

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The effects of tuition reforms on school enrollment in rural China

Cited by 62 publications

References 13 publications

Minimum wage effects on employment and working time of Chinese workers——evidence based on CHNS

Minimum wage effects on employment and working time of Chinese workers——evidence based on CHNS

The Impact of Educational Fee Reduction Reform on School Enrolment in Rural China

The gender gap among school children in poor rural areas of western China: evidence from a multi-province dataset

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