DO RURAL STUDENTS PERFORM AS WELL AS THEIR URBAN CLASSMATES? EVIDENCE FROM URBAN CHINA

Bin Xu, Qianbin Yu () and Yuemei Yuan
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Bin Xu: KRI-Modern Business Research Center of Zhejiang Gongshang University, 18 Xuezheng St, Qiantang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, P. R. China†School of Economics, Zhejiang Gongshang University, 18 Xuezheng St, Qiantang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, P. R. China
Qianbin Yu: ��School of Economics, Zhejiang Gongshang University, 18 Xuezheng St, Qiantang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, P. R. China
Yuemei Yuan: ��The Party School of Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Hangzhou 311121, P. R. China

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2025, vol. 70, issue 05, 1247-1275

Abstract: We investigate the academic performance gap between students with local rural and urban identities at the same schools in China. We find that in urban public schools, rural students achieve lower test scores than their urban counterparts. Evidence suggests that compared to their urban counterparts, rural students are recorded with lower personality traits, engaging in fewer teacher–student interactions, and receiving unfriendly attitudes from their urban peers, even though they appreciate the role of education as much as their urban counterparts do. To promote the human capital accumulation of rural students at local urban schools, we need to solve the above problems by enhancing their social integration.

Keywords: Academic performance; hukou system; rural–urban gap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 I25 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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