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Measuring regional inequality of education in China: widening coast–inland gap or widening rural–urban gap?

✍ Scribed by Xiaolei Qian; Russell Smyth


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
97 KB
Volume
20
Category
Article
ISSN
0954-1748

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✦ Synopsis


Abstract

This article measures education inequality between the coastal and inland provinces and compares it with rural–urban educational inequality in China, using Gini education coefficients and decomposition analysis. The main finding of the article is that disparities in access to education between rural and urban areas rather than between coastal and inland provinces are the major cause of educational inequality in China. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.