The Impact of Changes in Chinese Government Policy on Rural-Urban Migrant Children’s Schooling

Li, Nan; Placier, Peggy

doi:10.5539/ass.v11n18p31

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“…This sharp increase in the number of migrant children in China's urban schools has sparked growing concern among policy makers and the parents of local students about the potential effects of this growth on learning outcomes of local students (Li and Placier, 2015). Specifically, the rapid influx of migrant children, and commensurate changes in class composition, has raised fears that migrant students will be detrimental to the learning and behaviour of local students, as the former are more likely to be socioeconomically and academically disadvantaged (Chen and Feng, 2013).…”

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Do migrant students affect local students’ academic achievements in urban China?

Wang

Cheng

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2018

Economics of Education Review

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractWe examine the educational spillover effects of migrant students on local students' academic achievement in public middle schools in urban China. The identification of peer effects relies on idiosyncratic variation in the proportion of migrant students across classes within schools. We find that the proportion of migrant students in each class has a small, and positive, effect on local students' test scores in Chinese, but has no significant effect on math and English test scores. We also find considerable evidence of heterogeneity in the effects of the proportion of students in the class on local students' test scores across subsamples. Local students toward the bottom of the achievement distribution, local students enrolled in small classes and local students enrolled in lower-ranked schools benefit most in terms of test scores from having a higher proportion of migrant students in their class. Our findings have important policy implications for the debate in China about the inclusion of migrant students in urban schools, and for the assignment of educational resources across schools.

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Do migrant students affect local students’ academic achievements in urban China?

Wang

Cheng

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2018

Economics of Education Review

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“…The income situation of migrant workers is shown in Table 3. And from the statistics, we also conclude that migrant workers in metropolis earn more than the migrant workers in smaller cities [7]. …”

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Study on the Current Employment Situation of Migrant Workers

Wang¹

2017

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After the Opinions of the State Council on Solving Problems of Migrant Workers is carried out, the migrant workers' situation has been improved, especially that their income has been increased greatly, the problem of wages in arrears has been abated, and the services provided by the government have been enhanced. However, some basic problems such as the migrant workers' low income and difficult life have not been changed fundamentally. Thus, in order to carry out all of the policies of solving migrant workers' problems, we should promote the institutional innovation, increase related investment, and gradually eliminate the institutional and financial obstacles of the citizenization of migrant workers; only in these ways can we solve the migrant workers' problems.

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“…Recent literature on centralized legislation, regulations and administrative policies indicate a gradual change of the central government's educational policy for migrant children from exclusive to inclusive [27] [28].…”

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“…Various versions of official documents are required for migrant children to enter public schools, both across and within provinces or even within a city [28]. After 2004, Beijing's government stipulated that migrant children must provide "five certificates" to be enrolled in public school without an extra fee.…”

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Literature Review on Educational Attainment of Migrant Children in China

Zhang¹

2016

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This paper reviews the literature on migrant children's educational attainment in Chinese urban cities. The review attempts to explore the central government's policy of institutional segregation and the barriers established by local policy on the issue of migrant children's access to education. Furthermore, the review examines the direct consequences of policies that limit migrant children's school enrollment, thus affecting their educational and psychological performance and their social integration in urban areas. Lack of equal access to education for migrant children is also closely correlated with education inequality and poverty, which reinforce each other and form a trap for poor families. Finally, this paper endeavors to review the contribution of recent studies on migrant children's education in urban cities, with a focus on quantitative data and methods applied by recent studies on the topic. At the same time, the review discusses the limitations of current studies and potential areas for future research.

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The Impact of Changes in Chinese Government Policy on Rural-Urban Migrant Children’s Schooling

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Do migrant students affect local students’ academic achievements in urban China?

Do migrant students affect local students’ academic achievements in urban China?

Study on the Current Employment Situation of Migrant Workers

Literature Review on Educational Attainment of Migrant Children in China

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