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Fang, Hai; Eggleston, Karen N.; Rizzo, John A.; Rozelle, Scott; Zeckhauser, Richard J. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
As China transforms from a socialist planned economy to a market-oriented economy, its returns to education are expected to rise to meet those found in middle-income established market economies. This study employs a plausible instrument for education: the China Compulsory Education Law of 1986. We use differences among provinces in the dates of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Compulsory Education, Educational Legislation
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Yi, Hongmei; Zhang, Linxiu; Luo, Renfu; Shi, Yaojiang; Mo, Di; Chen, Xinxin; Brinton, Carl; Rozelle, Scott – International Journal of Educational Development, 2012
Despite requirements of and support for universal education up to grade 9, there are concerning reports that poor rural areas in China suffer from high and maybe even rising dropout rates. Although aggregated statistics from the Ministry of Education show almost universal compliance with the 9-year compulsory education law, there have been few…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Equal Education, Dropout Rate, Compulsory Education