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The impact of conditional cash transfers on the matriculation of junior high school students into rural China’s high schools

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  • Fan Li
  • Yingquan Song
  • Hongmei Yi
  • Jianguo Wei
  • Linxiu Zhang
  • Yaojiang Shi
  • James Chu
  • Nathalie Johnson
  • Prashant Loyalka
  • Scott Rozelle

Abstract

The goal of this study is to examine whether promising a Conditional Cash Transfer(conditional on matriculation) at the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matriculate in to high school. Based on a randomized controlled trial involving 1,418 disadvantaged (economically poor) students in rural China, we find that the promise a CCT has no effect on increasing high school matriculation for the average disadvantaged student. We do find, however, that providing the CCT increases high school matriculation among the subset of disadvantaged students who overestimate the direct costs of attending high school.

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  • Fan Li & Yingquan Song & Hongmei Yi & Jianguo Wei & Linxiu Zhang & Yaojiang Shi & James Chu & Nathalie Johnson & Prashant Loyalka & Scott Rozelle, 2015. "The impact of conditional cash transfers on the matriculation of junior high school students into rural China’s high schools," Working Papers of LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance 508657, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance.
    • Handle: RePEc:ete:licosp:508657
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    2. Fan Li & Prashant Loyalka & Hongmei Yi, 2016. "Ability Tracking and Social Capital in China’s Rural Secondary School System," Working Papers id:10972, eSocialSciences.

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