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Xiaoxin, Wu – Australian Journal of Education, 2013
School choice in China is characterized by the payment of substantial amounts of additional ("choice") fees by parents to the preferred school, and by the use of cultural, social and economic capital to obtain places in oversubscribed schools. This study examines the role of social capital in current parent-initiated school choice in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Capital, School Choice, Parent Role
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Lei, Xiaoyan; Hu, Yuqing; McArdle, John J.; Smith, James P.; Zhao, Yaohui – Journal of Human Resources, 2012
In this paper, we model gender differences in cognitive ability in China using a new sample of middle-aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement Study (HRS), the CHARLS Pilot survey respondents are 45 years and older in two quite distinct provinces--Zhejiang, a high-growth industrialized province on the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Incentives, Foreign Countries, Schemata (Cognition)