Education and poverty in rural China.

Autor/inn/en	Brown, Philip H.; Park, Albert
Titel	Education and poverty in rural China.
Quelle	In: Economics of education review, 21 (2002) 6, S. 523-541Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 34; Tabellen 5; Grafiken 5
Sprache	englisch; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/S0272-7757(01)00040-1
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Empirische Untersuchung; Bildungsbeteiligung; Bildungsniveau; Armut; Bildung; China; Einkommen; Ländlicher Raum; Qualität; Schüler; Schulbesuch; Schule; Schulerfolg; Leistung; Bildungsniveau; Bildungsbeteiligung; Schule; Schulbesuch; Schüler; Schulerfolg; Schülerleistung; Ländlicher Raum; Armut; Einkommen; Leistung; Qualität; China
Abstract	The paper analyzes household and school survey data from poor counties in six Chinese provinces to examine the effects of poverty, intra-household decision-making, and school quality on educational investments ( enrollment decisions) and learning outcomes (test scores and grade promotion). Unlike previous studies, direct measures of credit limits and women's empowerment were used. Drawing a distinction between the effects of wealth (measured by expenditure per capita) and credit constraints, the authors find that the former improves learning while the latter reduces educational investments. They find evidence of a story of gender bias in which academically weak girls are more likely to drop out in primary school while most boys continue on to junior secondary school. Women's empowerment reduces the likelyhood of dropping out but does not affect outcomes. Finally, the measures of school quality have some effect on the duration of primary school enrollment but not on learing. (DIPF/Orig.)
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2004_(CD)