The Rural Education Action Program is part of the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions.
Scholarly Publications
Parental Investment, School Choice, and the Persistent Benefits of Intervention in Early Childhood
We present evidence from a randomized experiment testing the impacts of a six-month early childhood home-visiting program on child outcomes at school entry. Two and a half years after completion of...
Does Paternal Involvement Matter for Early Childhood Development in Rural China?
Research in developed countries has found that paternal involvement has positive and significant effects on early childhood development (ECD). Less is known, however, about the state of paternal...
Passive Versus Active Service Delivery: Comparing the Effects of Two Parenting Interventions on Early Cognitive Development in Rural China
We present the results of a cluster-randomized controlled trial that evaluates the effects of a free, center-based parenting intervention on early cognitive development and parenting practices in 100...
Other Publications
News
China is Purging Celebrities and Tech Billionaires. But the Problem is Bigger than 'Sissy Men'
September 2021
The Los Angeles Times writes about China's new "common prosperity" campaign to narrow the gap between rich and poor. However Scott Rozelle doesn't think "any of these...
Forbes: How China’s GDP Growth Fails To Measure Its Standard Of Living: The Tragedy Of The Current Recentralization
September 2021
Author Anne Stevenson-Yang exposes the unseen rural China and states that "the best corrective to misunderstandings about this “invisible China” is a book that came out in 2020 and remains the...
EURiCS: The Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19 Control Measures in Rural China
July 2021
Scott Rozelle discusses the impact of COVID-19 control measures on employment and education in rural China during a presentation given to the EURICS/IFRAE/Universite de Liege webinar series.
Events
Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise — Book Launch Event
September 15, 2020
This event will take place on Zoom.
The Global Landscape of In-Service Teacher Professional Development Programs: The Gap between Evidence & Practice
November 8, 2017
About the Topic: We review evidence on the characteristics of the most effective teacher professional development (PD) programs, present new data from around the world on the actual characteristics...
End Heuristics in Retrospective Voting: Evidence from a Conditional Cash Transfer Experiment
October 2, 2017
About the Speaker: Patrick McEwan is a Professor of Economics at Wellesley College. He conducts research on education and social policy in developing countries, especially in Latin America.
Projects
PRICE Manual of Procedures
Chinese children have among the highest rates of myopia in the world.
English
Assessing & Improving the Quality of Higher Education
An International Comparative Study University attendance is increasing around the world, but are graduates learning the essential skills required to succeed in the workforce and grow the economy?...
English
Assessing and Credentialing Vocational High Schools
Problem Vocational high schools in China serve as an alternative to academic high school and typically provide two years of in-the-classroom training and a one-year, school-supervised, on-the-job...
English
Multimedia
Podcast: The Role of EdTech in Education
December 2019
On their podcast production, Middlebury College students Christian Poulsen and Frederick Mosier interview Professor Scott Rozelle on the role of educational technology in rural China.
Healthy Future: Breastfeeding Tutorial in English
April 2019
Video Production Credit: Digital MEdIC Program of the Center for Health Education and Stanford Medicine, Stanford UniversityThis video was created by the Digital MEdIC Program at Stanford University as part of a series of videos that highlight the...
Healthy Future: Breastfeeding Tutorial in Chinese
April 2019
Video Production Credit: Digital MEdIC Program of the Center for Health Education and Stanford Medicine, Stanford UniversityThis video was created by the Digital MEdIC Program and the Rural Education Action Program at Stanford University to train...
People
Sarah-Eve Dill Senior Editor, SCCEI Senior Editor, SCCEI, Early Childhood Education Program Lead, REAP