{"title":"School Matters to Whom? The Impact of Educational Resources on Cognitive Inequality","authors":"Yifei Lu, Wenli Li, Zheng Zhou","doi":"10.1007/s11482-024-10352-7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The disparities between rural and urban students have been widely recognized in China in recent years. However, the role that school plays in reproducing this gap is not well understood. This study aims to fill this gap by analysing the impact of educational resources on the cognitive development of students with rural and urban hukou. Utilizing two waves of survey data from middle school students in the Chinese Education Panel Survey (CEPS) and employing a lagged dependent variable model, our results indicate that the cognitive development gap between rural and urban hukou students is primarily influenced by the unequal distribution of educational resources, especially disadvantaging rural hukou students. The findings suggest that public policies targeting the reduction of this educational gap should focus more on enhancing educational resources for rural students to foster their cognitive development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"19 5","pages":"2705 - 2725"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11482-024-10352-7","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The disparities between rural and urban students have been widely recognized in China in recent years. However, the role that school plays in reproducing this gap is not well understood. This study aims to fill this gap by analysing the impact of educational resources on the cognitive development of students with rural and urban hukou. Utilizing two waves of survey data from middle school students in the Chinese Education Panel Survey (CEPS) and employing a lagged dependent variable model, our results indicate that the cognitive development gap between rural and urban hukou students is primarily influenced by the unequal distribution of educational resources, especially disadvantaging rural hukou students. The findings suggest that public policies targeting the reduction of this educational gap should focus more on enhancing educational resources for rural students to foster their cognitive development.
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The aim of this journal is to publish conceptual, methodological and empirical papers dealing with quality-of-life studies in the applied areas of the natural and social sciences. As the official journal of the ISQOLS, it is designed to attract papers that have direct implications for, or impact on practical applications of research on the quality-of-life. We welcome papers crafted from interdisciplinary, inter-professional and international perspectives. This research should guide decision making in a variety of professions, industries, nonprofit, and government sectors, including healthcare, travel and tourism, marketing, corporate management, community planning, social work, public administration, and human resource management. The goal is to help decision makers apply performance measures and outcome assessment techniques based on concepts such as well-being, human satisfaction, human development, happiness, wellness and quality-of-life. The Editorial Review Board is divided into specific sections indicating the broad scope of practice covered by the journal. The section editors are distinguished scholars from many countries across the globe.