Educational Inputs and Intra-county Education Inequality in a Western Province of China

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10.2991/assehr.k.201214.012How to use a DOI?

Keywords

compulsory education, educational inputs, intra-county education inequality, China

Abstract

China has determined to narrow intra-county education gap and held county level governments accountable for achieving this goal through state evaluation. This study examines the relationship between intra-county education inequality and county level educational inputs. Based on statistical analysis of county level data in a western province, firstly, it finds for counties unqualified in the evaluation, there are less educational inputs compared with counties qualified, and then, inputs are negatively correlated with intra-county education inequality, indicating resource insufficiency may impede closing education gap. It also discovers for counties qualified in the evaluation, educational inputs are positively correlated with intra-county education inequality, implying possible distortion in resource allocation and ineffectiveness of the extant evaluation system. The results suggest increasing resources may be essential for counties unqualified to further narrow intra-county education gap, while redistributing resources and new institutions may be warranted for counties qualified to continuously advance this undertaking.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yi Long
AU  - Yumei Zhou
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/16
TI  - Educational Inputs and Intra-county Education Inequality in a Western Province of China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 6th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 73
EP  - 77
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201214.012
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201214.012
ID  - Long2020
ER  -