Reassessing Disparity in Access to Higher Education in Contemporary China.
In this commentary on the research note by Wang Xiaobing, Chengfang Liu, Linxiu Zhang, Yaojiang Shi and Scott Rozelle, “College is a rich, Han, urban, male club: research notes from a census survey of four tier one colleges in China,” I address several caveats in using the relative disparity index i...
| Publicado en: | China Quarterly Vol. 220; pp. 1123 - 1131 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2014
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=100078298&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 100078298 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 03057410 CHQ jtl: China Quarterly issn: 03057410 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2014 vid: 220 pid: 15979 pub: Cambridge University Press artinfo: ui: 100078298 10.1017/S0305741014001167 ppf: 1123 ppct: 8 formats: tig: atl: Reassessing Disparity in Access to Higher Education in Contemporary China. aug: au: Hu, Anning affil: Fudan University. Email: huanning@fudan.edu.cn. su: China Right to education Equality research Higher education Higher education & society Social conditions in China, 2000- sug: subj: Right to education Equality research Higher education Higher education & society China Social conditions in China, 2000- keyword: China, higher education disparity 不平等 中国 高等教育 China, higher education disparity 不平等 中国 高等教育 ab: In this commentary on the research note by Wang Xiaobing, Chengfang Liu, Linxiu Zhang, Yaojiang Shi and Scott Rozelle, “College is a rich, Han, urban, male club: research notes from a census survey of four tier one colleges in China,” I address several caveats in using the relative disparity index in assessing the extent of inequality in access to higher education. Based on these discussions, I point out the potential limitations existing in the empirical study of Wang and colleagues, and reassess the extent of disparity in college education opportunities in contemporary China using data from the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey. Although the descriptive patterns consolidate the study of Wang and colleagues, only household registration status is significantly associated with the likelihood of attending college. These findings indicate that disparities per gender, economic status, and ethnicity based on a limited number of colleges are likely to be subject to sampling errors. Finally, no interaction effects between socio-demographic factors are detected. I offer some reflections on the disproportionality approach in the research of education inequality. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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