Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67319 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6853
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
A significant proportion of migrant children in China are not able to attend public schools for lack of local household registration (HuKou), and turn to privately-operated migrant schools. This paper examines the consequences of such a partially involuntary school choice, using survey data and standardized test scores from field work conducted in Shanghai. We find that migrant students who are unable to enroll in public schools perform significantly worse than their more fortunate counterparts in both Chinese and Mathematics. We also use parental satisfaction and parental assessment of school quality as alternative measures of the educational outcome and find similar results. Our study suggests that access to public schools is the key factor determining the quality of education that migrant children receive.
Subjects: 
education of migrant children
migrant school
standardized test score
JEL: 
I28
J15
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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