Quality of migrant schools in China: Evidence from a longitudinal study
Yuanyuan Chen, Shuaizhang Feng*
内容摘要：Migrant children in Chinese cities are officially excluded from the public education system due to lack of hukou, and a substantial number of them have to enter private migrant schools. This paper studies the quality of migrant schools using data collected in Shanghai in 2010 and 2012. Although students in migrant schools perform considerably worse than their counterparts in public schools, the test score difference in mathematics has almost been halved between 2010 and 2012, due to increasing financial subsidy from the government. On the other hand, we also report evidence suggesting substantial outside institutional barriers for migrant schools.
关键词：migrant school; school quality; institutional barrier
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* Corresponding Author. Address: 917B Esther Lee Building, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, China. Email: shuaizhang.feng@gmail.com.
