Articles

PDF

Who Goes, Who Stays, and Who Studies? Gender, Migration, and Educational Decisions among Rural Youth in China (with Yilin Chiang and Grace Kao), Gansu Survey of Children and Families Papers (2011)
 

Link

Examinations and educational opportunity in China: mobility and bottlenecks for the rural poor (with Xuehui An and Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng), Gansu Survey of Children and Families Papers (2011)
 

PDF

Poverty, Parental Ill Health and Children’s Access to Schooling in Rural Gansu, China (with Tanja Sargent and Shengchao Yu), Gansu Survey of Children and Families Papers (2009)
 

PDF

Doing More With Less: Teacher Professional Learning Communities in Resource-Constrained Primary Schools in Rural China (with Tanja C. Sargent), Gansu Survey of Children and Families Papers (2009)
 

PDF

Family Sources of Educational Gender Inequality in Rural China: A Critical Assessment (with Peggy A. Kong and Yuping Zhang), Gansu Survey of Children and Families Papers (2008)
 

PDF

Teaching Quality and Student Outcomes: Academic Achievement and Educational Engagement in Rural Northwest China (with Xuehui An and Tanja Sargent), Gansu Survey of Children and Families Papers (2008)
 

Link

Gender-Based Employment and Income Differences in Urban China: Considering the Contributions of Marriage and Parenthood (with Yuping Zhang and Meiyan Wang), Social Forces (2008)
 

PDF

Do Mothers in Rural China Practice Gender Equality in Educational Aspirations for Their Children? (with Yuping Zhang and Grace Kao), Gansu Survey of Children and Families Papers (2007)
 

Link

Educational Resources and Impediments in Rural Gansu, China (with Peggy Kong), Gansu Survey of Children and Families Working Papers (2007)
 

PDF

Food for Thought: Poverty, Family Nutritional Environment, and Children's Educational Performance in Rural China (with Shengchao Yu), Gansu Survey of Children and Families Papers (2007)
 

PDF

Keeping Teachers Happy: Job Satisfaction among Primary School Teachers in Rural Northwest China (with Tanja Sargent), Gansu Survey of Children and Families Papers (2005)
 

Link

Children’s Social Welfare in China, 1989–1997: Access to Health Insurance and Education (with Jennifer H. Adams), China Quarterly (2005)
 

Books

Link

Globalization, Changing Demographics, and Educational Challenges in East Asia (with Hyunjoon Park and Yuko Goto Butler) (2010)
 

Contributions to Books

PDF

Editors’ introduction: Emerging issues for educational research in East Asia (with Hyunjoon Park and Yuko Goto Butler), Globalization, Changing Demographics, and Educational Challenges in East Asia (2010)
 

PDF

Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Social Welfare in China (with Meiyan Wang), World Bank Report (2010)
 

PDF

Girls in Gansu, China: Expectations and aspirations for secondary schooling (with Jennifer Adams), Gansu Survey of Children and Families Papers (2008)
 

PDF

Beyond Cost: Rural Perspectives on Barriers to Education (with Jennifer H. Adams), Creating Wealth and Poverty in China (2008)
 

PDF

Education in the Reform Era (with Jere Behrman, Meiyan Wang, and Jihong Liu), China’s Great Economic Transformation (2008)
 

PDF

Urban-Rural Disparities in Access to Primary and Secondary Education Under Market Reform (with Meiyan Wang and Jennifer H. Adams), One Country, Two Societies? Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China (2008)
 

PDF

Poverty, Health and Schooling in China (with Shengchao Yu), Education, Stratification and Social Change in China (2006)
 

PDF

Adolescent Transitions to Adulthood in Reform-Era China (with Jihong Liu), The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries: Selected Studies (2005)
 

Unpublished Papers

PDF

Poverty and Proximate Barriers to Learning: Vision Deficiencies, Vision Correction and Educational Outcomes in Rural Northwest China (with Yuping Zhang), PARC Working Papers (2008)