The Rural Education Action Program is part of the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions.
Scholarly Publications
Exploring Teacher Job Satisfaction in Rural China: Prevalence and Correlates
Extant research continues to establish the importance of teacher job satisfaction to student performance, yet teacher job satisfaction remains under-investigated in rural China. In this paper, we...
Ordeal Mechanisms, Information, and the Cost-Effectiveness of Strategies to Provide Subsidized Eyeglasses
The cost-effectiveness of policies providing subsidized health goods is often compromised by limited use of the goods provided. Through a randomized trial involving 251 primary schools in western...
Gender Equity in Vision Care Seeking Behavior Among Caregivers: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural China
Background
Despite rising incomes and rapid economic growth, there remains a significant gender gap in health outcomes among rural children in China....
Other Publications
News
"Caste Aside: The Future for China's Peasants" Podcast Episode Features Scott Rozelle
February 2022
The Little Red Podcast interviewed FSI senior fellow and SCCEI co-director Scott Rozelle on their podcast to discuss whether common prosperity in China can trickle down to the countryside or not and...
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...
Old 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 Chinese
April 2019
Video Production Credit: Digital MEdIC Program of the Center for Health Education and Stanford Medicine, Stanford University This video was created by the Digital MEdIC Program and the Rural Education Action Program at Stanford University to train...
Healthy Future: Breastfeeding Tutorial in English
April 2019
Video Production Credit: Digital MEdIC Program of the Center for Health Education and Stanford Medicine, Stanford University This video was created by the Digital MEdIC Program at Stanford University as part of a series of videos that highlight...
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