TY - JOUR
T1 - A Decomposition of Student Achievement Gap by Gender in China
T2 - Evidence from Random Class Assignment
AU - Luo, Rundong
AU - Tenga, Kuan
AU - Xu, Lei
AU - Zhu, Yu
N1 - Funding Information:
Rundong Luo is funded by a grant from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 72073082 ). All remaining errors are ours.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Using random class assignment in the China Education Panel Survey, we study the gender achievement gap of lower secondary students in China. Girls outperform boys in Chinese and English by around 0.5 SD, holding all factors including hukou status, cognitive ability and schools attended constant. The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition reveals that most of the gender gap cannot be explained by observables regardless of the subjects and this is contrary to cognitive scores. Quantile decomposition results indicate that the unexplained “girl premium” is largely monotonically decreasing in the conditional quantiles of the exam score distribution for all subjects, being particularly large at the lower tails, but vanishes altogether at the top decile in Math.
AB - Using random class assignment in the China Education Panel Survey, we study the gender achievement gap of lower secondary students in China. Girls outperform boys in Chinese and English by around 0.5 SD, holding all factors including hukou status, cognitive ability and schools attended constant. The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition reveals that most of the gender gap cannot be explained by observables regardless of the subjects and this is contrary to cognitive scores. Quantile decomposition results indicate that the unexplained “girl premium” is largely monotonically decreasing in the conditional quantiles of the exam score distribution for all subjects, being particularly large at the lower tails, but vanishes altogether at the top decile in Math.
KW - Blind-Oaxaca decomposition
KW - Gender education gap
KW - Hukou
KW - Quantile decomposition
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85098106859&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101721
DO - 10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101721
M3 - Article
SN - 0883-0355
VL - 106
JO - International Journal of Educational Research
JF - International Journal of Educational Research
IS - 2021
M1 - 101721
ER -
