Can information and counseling help students from poor rural areas go to high school? Evidence from China

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1012-1025

  Loyalka, Prashant ^a,d   Liu, Chengfang ^b   Song, Yingquan ^a   Yi, Hongmei ^b   Huang, Xiaoting ^a   Wei, Jianguo ^a   Zhang, Linxiu ^b   Shi, Yaojiang ^c   Chu, James ^d   Rozelle, Scott ^d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Counseling; Dropout; Information; Junior high school students; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886641693     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: 10957227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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