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The Impact of Computer Assisted Learning on Rural Taiwanese Children: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
The Hidden Cost of Worker Turnover: Attributing Product Reliability to the Turnover of Factory Workers
Impact of Spectacles Wear on Uncorrected Visual Acuity among Urban Migrant Primary School Children in China: A Cluster-Randomised Clinical Trial
Lockdowns are Protecting China’s Rural Families from COVID-19, but the Economic Burden is Heavy
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak in December 2019, China implemented a nationwide travel blockade and quarantine policy that required all public spaces, businesses, and schools to shut their doors until further notice and placed restrictions on individuals leaving their homes or traveling. The lockdown was also implemented across China’s vast rural areas, home to more than 700 million people. These quarantine measures started during the annual Spring Festival in mid-January, when most rural residents had returned to their family homes to celebrate the Lunar New Year together.
“At Three Years of Age, We Can See the Future”: Cognitive Skills and the Life Cycle of Rural Chinese Children
Independent Reading in Rural China's Elementary Schools: A Mixed-Methods Analysis
School Quality and Peer Effects: Explaining Differences in Academic Performance between China’s Migrant and Rural Students
Factors Linked to Cultivating Successful Readers: Evidence from Rural China
Teacher Qualifications and Development Outcomes of Preschool Children in Rural China
Large-Scale International Assessments of Learning Outcomes: Balancing the Interests of Multiple Stakeholders
Why Aren't Rural Children Completing Compulsory Education? A Survey-Based Study in China, 2003 to 2011
Feeling Bad and Doing Bad: Student Confidence in Reading in Rural China
Depressive Symptoms and the Link with Academic Performance among Rural Taiwanese Children
Isolating the "Tech" from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning in China
The Impact of Pay-for-Percentile Incentive on Low-Achieving Students in Rural China
Passive versus Active Service Delivery: Comparing the Effects of Two Parenting Interventions on Early Cognitive Development in Rural China
Targeted Poverty Alleviation through Education: A Study of Myopia Among Rural Students in China and Prevention and Control Policy Recommendations
Epidemiology, Causes, Clinical Manifestation and Diagnosis, Prevention and Control of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) During the Early Outbreak Period: A Scoping Review
Effect of Chinese Eye Exercises on Change in Visual Acuity and Eyeglasses Wear among School-Aged Children in Rural China: A Propensity-Score-Matched Cohort Study
Parental Migration and Early Childhood Development in Rural China
Visual Impairment and Spectacles Ownership among Upper Secondary School Students in Northwestern China
Agricultural and Rural Development in China During the Past Four Decades: An Introduction
Seeing is Believing: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Eyeglasses on Academic Performance, Aspirations, and Dropout among Junior High School Students in Rural China
We present the results of a randomized trial testing the impact of providing free eyeglasses on academic outcomes of junior high school students in a poor rural area of western China. We find that providing free prescription eyeglasses approximately halves dropout rates over a school year among students who did not own eyeglasses at baseline. Effects on dropout are mirrored by improvements in student performance on standardized exams in math and aspirations for further schooling