Giving kids a head start: The impact and mechanisms of early commitment of financial aid on poor students in rural China

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 113, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-15

  Yi, Hongmei ^a   Song, Yingquan ^b   Liu, Chengfang ^a   Huang, Xiaoting ^b   Zhang, Linxiu ^a   Bai, Yunli ^a   Ren, Baoping ^c   Shi, Yaojiang ^d   Loyalka, Prashant ^e   Chu, James ^e   Rozelle, Scott ^e  

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

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Dropout; ECFA; Plans after junior high; Poor

Indexed keywords

AID; FINANCIAL PROVISION; RURAL AREA; SECONDARY EDUCATION; STUDENT;

CHINA;

EID: 84911926088     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.11.002     Document Type: Article

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