The Rural Education Action Program is part of the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions.
Global Health
Scholarly Publications
Tuberculosis Detection and the Challenges of Integrated Care in Rural China: A Cross-sectional Standardized Patient Study
October 2017
Despite recent reductions in prevalence, China still faces a substantial tuberculosis (TB) burden, with future progress dependent on the ability of rural providers to appropriately detect and refer...
Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections and Correlated Risk Factors in Preschool and School-aged Children in Rural Southwest China
September 2012
We conducted a survey of 1707 children in 141 impoverished rural areas of Guizhou and Sichuan Provinces in Southwest China.
Effectiveness of provider incentives for anemia reduction in rural China: a cluster randomised trial
July 2012
Background: To study how misaligned supply-side incentives impede health programs in developing countries, we tested the impact of performance pay for anemia reduction in rural China.
News
Stanford researchers partner with local government to bring vision care to rural China
December 2015
One simple action—placing eyeglasses on a nearsighted child’s face—can help that child to learn almost twice as much in a single school year.
Huffington Post: How Glasses Can Help Solve Rural China's Schooling Problem
October 2015
Simply giving nearsighted children glasses can dramatically boost their school performance.
REAP’s Perfecting Parenting Project Shows Promise
June 2015
Once every week for six months, a special team of family planning workers fanned out across the remote towns of Shaanxi Province or journeyed to isolated villages in the Qinling Mountains, the...
Multimedia
The Rural Education Action Project
July 2014
What makes REAP's research approach so innovative to begin with? This documentary details how REAP's collaborative, empirical approach position the organization to alleviate poverty on a large scale.