An ecological examination of social capital effects on the academic achievement of chinese migrant children

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2578-2597

  Wu, Qiaobing ^a   Palinkas, Lawrence A ^b   He, Xuesong ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; China; Ecological framework; Migrant children; Social capital; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651329212     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcq051     Document Type: Article

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