 Financial support and financial well-being for vocational school students in ChinaXiaoxia Xie, Meichun Xie, Huiying Jin, Shannon Cheung and Chien-Chung Huang Children and Youth Services Review, 2020, vol. 118, issue C Abstract: To address persistent and widespread poverty across China, particularly in rural areas, the Chinese government initiated the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy. As a result, several programs have been established to provide financial support to students from low-income families. This study used a primary dataset that came from senior students at a vocational school in Sichuan province to examine the relationship between financial support programs and the financial well-being of vocational school students. The results indicate that the receipt of cash assistance for education and the amount received were both associated with financial well-being of the students. In addition, the effects of the policy on students’ financial well-being differed by their poverty status – students who were previously in poverty but were no longer living in poverty reported greater financial well-being than those who were still living in poverty at the time of data collection. Policy implications are discussed. Keywords: Educational antipoverty policy; Financial support; Cash transfer; Vocational education; High school; Students; China (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:118:y:2020:i:c:s0190740920311919 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105442 Access Statistics for this article Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier |
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