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	Do poor students benefit from China's Merger Program? Transfer path and educational performance
	Chen X. X. ; Yi H. M. ; Zhang L. X. ; Mo D. ; Chu J. ; Rozelle S.
	2014
关键词	Merger Program transfer path educational performance rural China malnutrition
英文摘要	Aiming to provide better education facilities and improve the educational attainment of poor rural students, China's government has been merging remote rural primary schools into centralized village, town, or county schools since the late 1990s. To accompany the policy, boarding facilities have been constructed that allow (mandate) primary school-aged children to live at school rather than at home. More generally, there also have been efforts to improve rural schools, especially those in counties and towns. Unfortunately, little empirical work has been available to evaluate the impact of the new merger and investment programmes on the educational performance of students. Drawing on a unique dataset that records both the path by which students navigate their primary school years (i.e., which different types of schools did students attend) as well as math test scores in three poverty-stricken counties, we use descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis (both Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and covariate matching) to analyse the relationship between different transfer paths and student educational performance. This allows us to examine the costs and benefits of the school merger and investment programmes. The results of the analysis show that students who attend county schools perform systematically better than those who attend village or town schools. However, completing primary school in town schools seems to have no effect on students' academic performance. Surprisingly, starting primary education in a teaching point does not hurt rural students; on the contrary, it increases their test scores in some cases. Finally, in terms of the boarding effect, the neutral estimate in OLS and the negative estimate in covariate matching results confirm that boarding at school does not help the students; in some cases it may even reduce their academic performance.
出处	Asia Pacific Journal of Education
卷	34
期	1
页	15-35
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
ISSN号	0218-8791
内容类型	SCI/SSCI论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/29939]
专题	地理科学与资源研究所_历年回溯文献
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen X. X.,Yi H. M.,Zhang L. X.,et al. Do poor students benefit from China's Merger Program? Transfer path and educational performance. 2014.

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