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The Rural Education Action Program is part of the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions.

Publications

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The Status Quo of Teaching Reading Skills in Rural Primary Schools in China: PIRLS Questionnaires in Guizhou and Jiangxi

Miqi Jia, Qiufeng Gao, Lanxi Peng, Jingchun Nie, Huan Wang, Qian Zhou

Journal Article

早期阅读能力的健康发展有利于提高小学生的学业成绩并改善其长期教育表现。本研究从学校和教师的角度探究我国农村小学阅读教学现状，为促进农村学生早期阅读发展奠定基础。基于贵州、江西150 所农村小学调查数据，通过国际比较发现，现阶段我国农村小学阅读教学仍存在教师学历水平相对较低、阅读培训时间较短、阅读教学基础教材单一、学校培养学生阅读技能时间较晚等不足。回归结果发现，...
IQ, Grit, and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Rural China

Xinyue He, Huan Wang, Fang Chang, Sarah-Eve Dill, Han Liu, Bin Tang, Yaojiang Shi

Journal Article

Promoting an educated labor force is critical for emerging economies. Educational achievement, in turn, depends heavily on general cognitive abilities as well as non-cognitive skills, such as grit....
Cognitive Ability and Academic Performance Among Left-Behind Children: Evidence from Rural China

Xinyue He, Huan Wang, Dimitris Friesen, Yaojiang Shi, Fang Chang, Han Liu

Journal Article

Little attention has been paid to the role that low levels of cognitive development (or IQ) play among both left-behind children (LBCs) and children living with parents (CLPs) in the context of poor...
Tracking the Effects of COVID-19 in Rural China Over Time

Huan Wang, Markus Zhang, Robin Li, Oliver Zhong, Hannah Johnstone, Huan Zhou, Hao Xue, Sean Sylvia, Matthew Boswell, Prashant Loyalka, Scott Rozelle

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Background: China issued strict nationwide guidelines to combat the COVID-19 outbreak in January 2020 and gradually loosened the restrictions on movement in early March. Little is known about how...
Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (Rural Dibao) Program Boosts Children's Education Outcomes in Rural China

Zixuan He, Xiangming Fang, Nathan Rose, Xiaodong Zheng, Scott Rozelle

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Purpose: To combat poverty in China's rural areas, Chinese government has established an unconditional cash transfer program known as the Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (Rural Dibao) Program...

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The Status Quo of Teaching Reading Skills in Rural Primary Schools in China: PIRLS Questionnaires in Guizhou and Jiangxi

Journal Article

IQ, Grit, and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Rural China

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Cognitive Ability and Academic Performance Among Left-Behind Children: Evidence from Rural China

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Tracking the Effects of COVID-19 in Rural China Over Time

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Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (Rural Dibao) Program Boosts Children's Education Outcomes in Rural China

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The Concept of Public Goods, the State, and Higher Education Finance: A View from the BRICs

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Assessing College Critical Thinking: Preliminary Results from the Chinese HEIghten® Critical Thinking Assessment

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Unequal Access to College in China: How Far Have Poor, Rural Students Been Left Behind?

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Human Capital and China’s Future Growth

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The Impact of Online Computer Assisted Learning at Home for Disadvantaged Children in Taiwan: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

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Maternal Health Behaviors During Pregnancy in Rural Northwestern China

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The Impacts of Highly Resourced Vocational Schools on Student Outcomes in China

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Large-Scale International Assessments of Learning Outcomes: Balancing the Interests of Multiple Stakeholders

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Examining Mode Effects for an Adapted Chinese Critical Thinking Assessment

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Schooling and Covid-19: Lessons from Recent Research on EdTech

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The Impact of Pay-for-Percentile Incentive on Low-Achieving Students in Rural China

Working Paper

Why Aren't Rural Children Completing Compulsory Education? A Survey-Based Study in China, 2003 to 2011

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Moving Beyond Lewis: Employment and Wage Trends in China’s High- and Low-Skilled Industries and the Emergence of an Era of Polarization

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Effects of Baby-Friendly Practices on Breastfeeding Duration in China: A Case-Control Study

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Visual Impairment in Rural and Migrant Chinese School-Going Children: Prevalence, Severity, Correction and Association

Working Paper

Off the Epicenter: COVID-19 Quarantine Controls and Employment, Education, and Health Impacts in Rural Communities

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Safety of Eyeglasses Wear for Visual Acuity among Middle School Students in Northwestern Rural China: A Cluster-randomised Controlled Trial

Book cover for "Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise" showing a man watering a field in front of high rise buildings.

Book

Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise

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Correlates of Participation in Community-Based Interventions: Evidence from a Parenting Program in Rural China

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Conditional Cash Transfers, Uptake of Maternal and Child Health Services, and Health Outcomes in Western Rural China

Working Paper

The Impact of Computer Assisted Learning on Rural Taiwanese Children: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Working Paper

Education and EdTech during COVID-19: Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey during School Closures in China

Journal Article

Impact of Spectacles Wear on Uncorrected Visual Acuity among Urban Migrant Primary School Children in China: A Cluster-Randomised Clinical Trial

Journal Article

Factors Linked to Cultivating Successful Readers: Evidence from Rural China

Book cover titled "COVID-19 Global Food Security"

Book

Lockdowns are Protecting China’s Rural Families from COVID-19, but the Economic Burden is Heavy

Publication Series

Policy Related Research - REAP 2013