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Measuring regional inequality of education in China: widening coast–inland gap or widening rural–urban gap?
Author(s) -
Qian Xiaolei,
Smyth Russell
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.1396
Subject(s) - inequality , china , gini coefficient , educational inequality , geography , rural area , economic growth , development economics , socioeconomics , demographic economics , economics , political science , economic inequality , mathematical analysis , mathematics , archaeology , law
This article measures education inequality between the coastal and inland provinces and compares it with rural–urban educational inequality in China, using Gini education coefficients and decomposition analysis. The main finding of the article is that disparities in access to education between rural and urban areas rather than between coastal and inland provinces are the major cause of educational inequality in China. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.