Homecurrent location： Home> Central News
Central News
Two SSCI Papers recently published by Chengfang Liu, Linxiu Zhang, Renfu Luo and their coauthors
Release date：2014/9/2 Source： ccap
Paper 1: The Education of China’s Migrant Children: The Missing Link in China’s Education System
Citation: Lai, Fang, Chengfang Liu, Renfu Luo, Linxiu Zhang, Xiaochen Ma, Yujie Bai, Brian Sharbono, Scott Rozelle. 2014. The education of China’s migrant children: The missing link in China’s education system, International Journal of Educational Development, 37 (2014): 68-77.
Abstract
This paper examines the academic performance of migrant students in China and explores determinants of their performance. The paper compares academic performance, student backgrounds and measures of school quality between private schools attended only by migrant children in Beijing (Beijing migrant schools) and rural public schools in Shaanxi province. Furthermore, we employ multivariate regression to examine how individual characteristics and school quality affect migrant student performance and the achievement gap between migrant students and those in rural public schools. We find that although migrant students outperform students in Shaanxi’s rural public schools when they initially arrive in Beijing, they gradually lose ground to rural students due to the poorer school resources and teacher quality in their schools. Additional analysis comparing migrant students in migrant schools to migrant students in Beijing public schools demonstrates that given access to better educational resources, migrant students may be able to significantly improve their performance.
Paper 2: Effect of Migration on Children’s Self-Esteem in Rural China
Citation: Zhan, Xuefeng, Shaoping Li, Chengfang Liu, Linxiu Zhang. 2014. Effect of Migration on Children’s Self-Esteem in Rural China. China & World Economy, Volume 22, Issue 4, pp 83-101.
Abstract:
China’s rapid economic growth has been facilitated by its large volume of rural to urban migration. China’s projected future development, especially increasing urbanization, implies that such migration will further intensify. However, migration does not come without cost. There are concerns about the potential negative impacts of migration on children’s care, education, and, in particular, the self-esteem of children left behind in villages where one or both parents have out-migrated to cities. In this paper, we employ unique survey data collected from Shaanxi Province, where more than 4700 ninth grade students from 36 rural junior high schools in five counties were surveyed in late 2011. The results show that having both parents migrate into cities significantly reduced children’s self-esteem. The effects are also gender sensitive. Girls that had a father or both parents who had out-migrated were inclined to have lower self-esteem than boys. Moreover, our study findings indicate that parental migration decreased children’s self-esteem more for individuals with initial low self-esteem.
s self-estemm.pdf
s education.pdf
