Educational Attainment and the Rural--Urban Divide in China

By John Knight, Li Shi. 2009

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Subfields: Demography, Political Science and International Relations, Safety Research

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• What determines basic school attainment in developing countries? Evidence from rural China (2010, background): “They usually find that urban location, parental (particularly mother’s) education, household income and the child’s sex are important determinants of enrollment (Knight and Li, 1993, 1996; Hannum, 1999, 2003; Connelly and Zheng, 2003).”
• The “difference between heaven and earth”: Urban–rural disparities in well-being in China (2012, background): “Although we have a strong theoretical basis (and a good deal of empirical evidence, e.g., Gustafsson & Li, 2001; Knight & Li, 1996; Knight & Song, 1999; Whyte, 2010) for expecting a substantial urban–rural gap in income and other aspects of well-being in China, it is less clear whether these gaps…”