Dropping out: Why are students leaving junior high in China's poor rural areas?

International Journal of Educational Development

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 555-563

  Yi, Hongmei ^a   Zhang, Linxiu ^a   Luo, Renfu ^a   Shi, Yaojiang ^b   Mo, Di ^c   Chen, Xinxin ^d   Brinton, Carl ^e   Rozelle, Scott ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d ZHEJIANG GONGSHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Dropout; Opportunity cost; Poverty; Rural china

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; EDUCATION POLICY; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; POVERTY; RURAL AREA; SECONDARY EDUCATION; STUDENT;

CHINA;

EID: 84860295831     PISSN: 07380593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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