1. Poverty in China's Colleges and the Targeting of Financial Aid.
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Li, Hongbin, Meng, Lingsheng, Shi, Xinzheng, and Wu, Binzhen
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COLLEGE students ,POVERTY ,HIGHER education ,ECONOMIC conditions of college students ,STUDENT financial aid ,SURVEYS ,UNIVERSITY tuition ,SOCIAL conditions in China, 2000- - Abstract
We use the Chinese College Student Survey, conducted in 2010, to examine levels of poverty among students on China's campuses. With the poverty line defined as the college-specific expenditures a student needs to maintain a basic living standard on campus, we find that 22 per cent of college students in China are living in poverty. Poverty is more severe among students from rural or western parts of the country. With a targeting count error of more than 50 per cent, it is important that the college need-based aid programme be improved. Lacking other income sources, poor students rely heavily on loans and paid employment to finance their college education. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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