China's urban-rural childhood cognitive divide: evidence from a longitudinal cohort study after a 6-year follow up

Wael Taji, Blake Mandell and Jianghong Liu

Intelligence, 2019, vol. 73, issue C, 1-7

Abstract: Previous studies have indicated the existence of a relationship between urban-rural location and mean intelligence values, for which multiple explanations inclusive of both environmental and genetic factors have been proposed. While this gap has also been shown to exist in China, its descriptions have been tentative due to the difficulties entailed in entangling the general urban-rural divide from its cognitive dimension. In the present study, we provide data and analysis from an ongoing longitudinal cohort study from Jintan, Jiangsu Province, containing two samples of IQ scores drawn from a critical period during child development (age 6 and 12) in addition to relevant information on urban, rural, and suburban sampling groups. We corroborate the presence of an urban-rural gap, and find gender differences that are persistent throughout all locations sampled.

Keywords: Urban-rurality; Cognitive development; Sex differences; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2019.01.002

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