Educational opportunities for rural and urban residents in China, 1978-2008: inequality and evolution

W Yuxiao - Social Sciences in China, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Wu Yuxiao 59 attainment; and educational inequality due to sibship size also displays a
rising tendency. To understand the structure and evolution of inequality in Chinese …

“Lost at the starting line”: a reconsideration of educational inequality in China, 1978–2008

J Tang - The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2016 - Springer
This research explores the changes in educational inequality between school transitions in
China. Due to the mechanism of differentiated selection, life course, and heterogeneous …

Transition to higher education in contemporary China: A study of high school graduates in urban Nanjing

G Lai, J Song, O Wong, X Feng - Journal of Sociology, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
China has undergone an expansion of higher education in the 1990s. The university
enrollment rate among high school graduates increased from 27.3% in 1990 to 87.6% in …

Changes in educational inequality in China, 1990–2005: Evidence from the population census data

X Wu, Z Zhang - … demographics, and educational challenges in East …, 2010 - emerald.com
This chapter examines the trend in school enrollment and transitions to senior high school
and to college in China for selected young cohorts since the 1990s, based on the analyses …

Sociopolitical change and inequality in educational opportunity: Impact of family background and institutional factors on educational attainment (1940-2001)

L Chunling - Chinese Sociology & Anthropology, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
The form of distribution of educational opportunities in a population greatly determines the
basic characteristics of the social stratification system. As Zhong Deng and Donald J …

Inequality of opportunity in China's educational outcomes

J Golley, ST Kong - China Economic Review, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper investigates trends in educational inequality in China, focusing on the
contribution of 'inequality of opportunity'to these trends. Utilising the China Family Panel …

Heterogeneous determinants of educational achievement and inequality across urban China

OMV Mendoza - China Economic Review, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The People's Republic of China (PRC) has achieved significant improvements in
educational attainment levels since the market-oriented reforms began almost four decades …

The household registration system and rural-urban educational inequality in contemporary China

X Wu - Chinese Sociological Review, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines the effect on educational inequality in contemporary China of the
household registration (hukou) system, based on which Chinese citizens were designated …

Urban-rural disparities in educational equality: China's pressing challenge in a context of economic growth and political change

R Yang - International handbook of urban education, 2007 - Springer
Equality has become a major goal of education around the world. The government of the
People's Republic of China (PRC) 1 also professes its commitment to equality, and has …

Two aspects of the rural-urban divide and educational stratification in China: A trajectory analysis

L Hao, A Hu, J Lo - Comparative education review, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Contextualized in China's social change of the past half-century, this article conceptualizes
the two aspects of China's rural-urban divide in educational inequality—the household …