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来源类型 | Publication |
Giving Kids a Head Start: The Impact of Early Commitment of Financial Aid on Poor Seventh Grade Students in Rural China | |
Hongmei Yi; Yingquan Song; Chengfang Liu; Xiaoting Huang; Linxiu Zhang; Yunli Bai; Yaojiang Shi; Chu Yang; Huan Wang; Prashant Loyalka; James Chu; Scott Rozelle | |
发表日期 | 2015 |
出版者 | Journal of Development Economics |
出版年 | 2015 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We estimate the impact of two early commitment of financial aid (ECFA) programs—one at the start and one near the end of junior high school (seventh and ninth grade, respectively)—on the outcomes of poor, rural junior high students in China. Our results demonstrate that neither of the ECFA programs has a substantive effect. We find that the ninth-grade program had at most only a small (and likely negligible) effect on matriculation to high school. The seventh-grade program had no effect on either dropout rates during high school or on educational performance as measured by a standardized math test. The seventh-grade program did increase the plans of students to attend high school by 15 percent. In examining why ECFA was not able to motivate significant behavioral changes for ninth graders, we argue that the competitiveness of the education system successfully screened out poorer performing students and promoted better performing students. Thus by ninth grade, the remaining students were already committed to going to high school regardless of ECFA support. In regards to the results of the seventh grade program, we show how seventh graders appear to be engaged in wishful thinking (they appear to change plans without reference to whether their plans are realistic). |
主题 | Poverty and Inequality |
子主题 | Educational Equity ; School Effectiveness ; Student Success |
URL | https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/giving-kids-head-start-impact-early-commitment-financial-aid-poor-seventh-grade-students-rural-china |
来源智库 | Center for Education Policy Analysis (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/491701 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hongmei Yi,Yingquan Song,Chengfang Liu,et al. Giving Kids a Head Start: The Impact of Early Commitment of Financial Aid on Poor Seventh Grade Students in Rural China. 2015. |
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