Giving kids a head start: The impact and mechanisms of early commitment of financial aid on poor students in rural China

H Yi, Y Song, C Liu, X Huang, L Zhang, Y Bai… - Journal of Development …, 2015 - Elsevier
We estimate the impact of two early commitment of financial aid (ECFA) programs—one at
the start and one near the end of junior high school (seventh and ninth grades, respectively)—
on the outcomes of poor, rural junior high students in China. Our results demonstrate that
neither of the ECFA programs has a substantive effect. We find that the ninth-grade program
had at most only a small (and likely negligible) effect on matriculation to high school. The
seventh-grade program had no effect on either dropout rates during junior high school or on …

Giving kids a head start: the impact and mechanisms of early commitment of financial aid on poor students in rural China.

YHM Yi HongMei, SYQ Song YingQuan… - 2015 - cabidigitallibrary.org
We estimate the impact of two early commitment of financial aid (ECFA) programs-one at the
start and one near the end of junior high school (seventh and ninth grades, respectively)-on
the outcomes of poor, rural junior high students in China. Our results demonstrate that
neither of the ECFA programs has a substantive effect. We find that the ninth-grade program
had at most only a small (and likely negligible) effect on matriculation to high school. The
seventh-grade program had no effect on either dropout rates during junior high school or on …
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