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Unequal Access to College in China: How Far Have Poor, Rural Students Been LeftBehind?*
Hongbin Li†, Prashant Loyalka‡, Scott Rozelle§, Binzhen Wu** and Jieyu Xie††
Abstract
In the 1990s, rural youth from poor counties in China had limited access tocollege. After mass college expansion started in 1998, however, it was unclearwhether rural youth from poor counties would gain greater access. The aim ofthis paper is to examine the gap in college and elite college access between ruralyouth from poor counties and other students after expansion. We estimate thegaps in access by using data on all students who took the college entranceexam in 2003. Our results show that gaps in access remained high even afterexpansion. Rural youth from poor counties were seven and 11 times less likelyto access any college and elite Project 211 colleges than urban youth, respectively.Much larger gaps existed for disadvantaged subgroups (female or ethnicminority) of rural youth from poor counties.We also find that the gaps in collegeaccess were mainly driven by rural–urban differences rather than differencesbetween poor and non-poor counties within rural or urban areas.
Keywords: China; inequality; college access; rural; poor; college expansion


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