1st Edition
Family and Educational Inequality in China Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies
Introduction: Using the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to Study the Role of Family in Educational Stratification in China
Xiaogang Wu
1. An Introduction to the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS)
Yu Xie and Jingwei Hu
2.. Cognitive Ability: Social Correlates and Consequences in Contemporary China
Guoying Huang, Yu Xie and Hongwei Xu
3. Family Background, Private Tutoring, and Children’s Educational Performance in Contemporary China
Yueyun Zhang and Yu Xie
4. Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Meritocracy? Academic Ability and China’s Urban-Rural Gap in Access to Higher Education.
Angran Li
5. Are Children from Divorced Single-Parent Families Disadvantaged? New Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies
Chunni Zhang
6. The influence of family background on educational expectations: a comparative study
Wangyang Li and Yu Xie
7. Dual pathways of intergenerational influence over multiple generations
Qing Huang, Xi Song and Yu Xie
8. Fathering, living arrangements, and child development in China
Wen Liu and Jia Yu
9. Parental perceptions of economic inequality and investment in education in China
Airan Liu, Chunni Zhang and Wangyang Li
10. Changes in family investment in children’s out-of-school education in China, 2010–2018
Airan Liu, Wangyang Li and Yu Xie
11. Early childhood growth trajectories and early adolescent cognitive achievement: the role of catch-up
Xiuqi Sukie Yang
12. Preschool advantage: economic disparities in the long-term effects of early childhood education on cognitive development in China
Gaoming Ma, Can Xu, Jiayu Zhang and Haijing Dai
Biography
Xiaogang Wu is the Yufeng Global Professor of Social Science and Professor of Sociology at NYU Shanghai and New York University, and the Founding Director of the Center for Applied Social and Economic Research (CASER) at NYU Shanghai. His research and teaching interests include Chinese society, social inequality and stratification, survey and quantitative methods, and urban sociology. He has been serving as the Chief Editor of Chinese Sociological Review since 2011. He was a Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) and a member of international advisory board of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS).
