Dropping Out: Why are Students Leaving Junior High in China's Poor Rural Areas?

By Hongmei Yi, Linxiu Zhang, R. Luo, Yaojiang Shi, Di Mo, Xinxin Chen, C. Brinton, Scott Rozelle. 2012

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Education Development in China: Education Return, Quality, and Equity (2019, background): “In another empirical study on returns to education in urban China, Li, Liu and Zhang [37] first used ordinary least-squares to estimate the rate of return to years of schooling and showed the elasticity was 8.4%, while the return reduced to 3.8% when they estimated the return using twins data and wi”
Dropping Out of Rural China's Secondary Schools: A Mixed-methods Analysis* (2015, unknown): “While there were differences among the studies in the exact nature of sampling 11 See, e.g., Yi et al. 2012; Mo et al. 2013.”
Human Capital and China's Future Growth (2017, background): “China’s labor shortage has rapidly increased the wages of low-skilled workers (Li, Li, Wu, and Xiong 2012), which is a major reason for students dropping out from junior high school (Yi et al. 2012).”
Emerging perceptions of teacher quality and teacher development in China (2014, background): “…identifies a deficiency in both the quality and quantity of teachers as a key drawback in raising the quality of compulsory education provision, ensuring equity and enabling the government’s aspiration of education for all (Liu, 2004; Jing and Hu, 2007; Robinson and Yi, 2008; Yi et al., 2012).”