Premature Boarding and Human Capital Accumulation for Rural Pupils: Evidence from School Consolidations

作     者：Hou Haibo Wu Yaowu Song Yingquan 侯海波;吴要武;宋映泉

作者机构：Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences(CAFS)BeijingChina Institute of Population and Labor Econoimcs(IPLE)Chinese Academy of Social SciencesBeijing China Institute for Educational Finance Research(CIEFR)Beijing 

出 版 物：《China Economist》 (中国经济学人（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第15卷第2期

页      面：92-108页

学科分类：0501[文学-中国语言文学] 0302[法学-政治学] 03[法学] 030204[法学-中共党史(含：党的学说与党的建设)] 05[文学] 0305[法学-马克思主义理论] 

主　　题：school consolidation primary school students premature boarding instrumental variable human capital 

摘      要：From 2001 to 2012,many local governments in China closed down village teaching sites for primary school students in the first and second grades,consolidating them into larger township schools more distant from village students’*** closure and consolidation are particularly striking in China’s central and western regions,where swathes of rural labor migrated to cities for *** a result,numerous primary school pupils are forced to study at boarding schools in the first and second grades,which is considered as too early for pupils to live without parental *** paper employs survey data from 137 township schools with boarding qualifications collected by a project team consisting of researchers from the China Institute for Educational Finance Research(CIEFR)of Peking University,the Institute of Population and Labor Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(IPLE-CASS)and the Capital University of Economics and Business(CUEB).By matching the home-school distance with village teaching site information as the proxy variable for the school consolidation policy,this paper evaluates the policy s impact on the likelyhood of premature boarding for primary school pupils,as well as the impact on their human capital *** study finds that the creation of teaching sites makes it less likely for primary school pupils to board at *** boarding impedes children’s human capital accumulation,and the harmful effect is particularly striking for children lacking pastoral teachers,raised by grandparents and from families above average income levels,as well as girls.