The distribution of financial aid in China: Is aid reaching poor students?

China Economic Review

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 898-917

  Loyalka, Prashant ^a   Song, Yingquan ^a   Wei, Jianguo ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; College students; Financial aid; Need; Nonparametric; Semiparametric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867642638     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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