Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Closing the TrapFootnote

The research was conducted while Li Shi and Deng Quheng were visiting the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, from Beijing Normal University and the Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, respectively. We thank Nina Fenton for her research assistance, Chris Colclough for his support, and the editors and two referees for very helpful comments. We are grateful to the UK Department for International Development (DfID) for financial support through John Knight's membership of the Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP), which is based partly at the Centre for the Study of African Economies in the Department of Economics, University of Oxford.

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