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The effect of boarding on campus on left-behind children’s sense of school belonging and academic achievement: Chinese evidence from propensity score matching analysis

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Pages 378-393 | Received 05 Jun 2017, Accepted 25 Mar 2018, Published online: 23 May 2018

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