The Rural Education Action Program is part of the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions.
Health
Scholarly Publications
Children’s Social Welfare in China, 1989–1997: Access to Health Insurance and Education
December 2005
Fundamental changes in China’s finance system for social services have decentralized responsibilities for provision to lower levels of government and increased costs to individuals.
New Evidence on the Impact of China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme and its Implications for Rural Primary Healthcare: Multivariate Difference-in-difference Analysis
October 2010
Objectives: To determine whether China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), which aims to provide health insurance to 800 million rural citizens and to correct distortions in rural...
Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation Reduces Anemia and Anxiety in Rural China's Elementary School Children
December 2013
Despite growing wealth and a strengthening commitment from the government to provide quality education, a significant share of students across rural China still have inadequate access to...
Other Publications
News
Foreign Policy: China Will Run Out of Growth if it Doesn't Fix its Rural Crisis
February 2021
Chorzempa & Huang write on China's rural human capital crisis stating that "no country with China's vast education and public health problems has ever broken out of the ranks of...
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.