61.055 - Inequality in Educational Opportunities: Evidence From China

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

China has experienced fast, massive educational expansion over the past three decades, including provision of compulsory basic education and expansion of higher education. However, increasing opportunities might not distribute equally across socioeconomic backgrounds. This panel will promote discussion and new research on educational and social policies that address academic achievement and attainment of several underprivileged groups in Chinese society: migrant children, girls, ethnic minorities, and students from a low socioeconomic status. Our panel will extend the literature on educational inequality by offering alternative hypotheses and utilizing the most recent panel of household data. Further, several empirical approaches will be discussed by panelists, including latent class analysis, ordinal logistic regression, and two-stage least-squares regression. Social and economic theories will be discussed.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 7: Social Policy and Social Context

Chair

• Dongshu Ou, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Papers

• Internal Migration Systems, Local Policy Variations, and Rural Migrant Students in China's Compulsory Education - Lingxin Hao, Johns Hopkins University; Xian Zhang, Renmin University of China

• Research on the Educational Demand of Migrant Children and Its Impact Factors: A Parental Perspective - Wanpeng Lei, Central China Normal University; Lu Xu, Central China Normal University; Yao Xie, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University

• The Impact of Parents' Occupatinal Power on Family Educational Expenditure - Xiaohao Ding, Peking University; Qiuyi Weng, Peking University

• Bigger Pie, Bigger Slice? The Impact of Higher Education Expansion on Educational Opportunities in China - Dongshu Ou, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Yuna Hou, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Discussant

• Prashant Loyalka, Stanford University