The Effect of Sibship Size on Educational Attainment in China: Period Variations
By Yao Lu, D. Treiman. 2008
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In industrialized nations, sibship size generally depresses educational attainment: the larger the number of siblings, the lower the educational attainment. This association is much less consistent in developing nations, however. This article examines the effect that the number of siblings has on educational attainment in China, a nation that has experienced sharp vacillations between policies designed to promote equality (between urban and rural residents and between men and women) and policies designed to promote economic development. The implementation of these policies in the educational arena has alternately reduced and increased competition for educational resources and, as we show, has correspondingly reduced and increased the effect of sibship size on educational attainment.
Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science
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- The “difference between heaven and earth”: Urban–rural disparities in well-being in China (2012, background): “The decrease reflects the contraction of schooling, with many schools opened during the Forward famine (Song, 2009, 2010), the Cultural Revolution (Deng & Treiman, 1997), and vacillations in policy between “red” and “expert” (Lu & Treiman, 2008).”