Which Regional Inequality? The Evolution of Rural–Urban and Inland–Coastal Inequality in China from 1983 to 1995

Measuring regional inequality of educati

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

✍ Xiaolei Qian; Russell Smyth 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 97 KB

## 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